Stabling and Other Outbuildings, Attached to East Side of Ven House is a Grade I listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. A Victorian Stables.

Stabling and Other Outbuildings, Attached to East Side of Ven House

WRENN ID
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Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1961
Type
Stables
Period
Victorian
Address
Stabling and Other Outbuildings, Attached to East Side of Ven House, DT9 5RA
OS grid reference
ST 680 183
Coordinates
50.96413, -2.45603
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The stabling and other outbuildings attached to the east side of Ven House were built between 1835 and 1836 by Decimus Burton. They feature a ham stone ashlar facing on the house, with red brick and ashlar dressings elsewhere. The roof is hipped Welsh slate, mostly hidden behind a parapet, and is topped in the center of the east section by a classical style timber clock turret with a weathervane. The structure has an 'L' plan and is a single storey with 13 bays along the south wall and 5 bays on the east return.

The south face of the south wing starts with 7 bays of a high garden wall extending from the southeast corner of Ven House, complete with a cornice, stone piers, and urn finials on the parapet. This is followed by an elliptical archway with a simple surround, impost blocks, and a console bracket keystone, flanked by plain pilasters topped with stone-carved eagles. There are then 3 bays of 8-pane sash windows in keystoned architraved surrounds, with the center adapted for French doors, and the parapet remains consistent with the earlier design.

The east wall of the east wing is plain, while the west elevation features a projecting center with 2 bays that have large semi-circular arches with doors and overfill. The southeast corner room has been adapted as a billiard room, and a unit to the west of the archway against the south wall now serves as a garage. This complex forms part of the setting for a country house.

Local climate

Stabling and Other Outbuildings, Attached to East Side of Ven House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  4. The Two Wing Walls Enclosing Formal Garden, with Gateway, Stone Steps and Stone Piers, Immediately South of Ven House Grade II 52 m
  5. Corridor Linking Ven House and the Orangery Grade I 63 m
  6. North West Pavilion and Balustraded Link Wall, Ven House Grade I 82 m
  7. Walls Enclosing Kitchen Garden, Immediately East of Stables, Ven House Grade II 96 m
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  10. Little Ven West Grade II 255 m