Old Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House. 4 related planning applications.
Old Garden House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-sentry-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Garden House, North Perrott, TA18 7ST
- OS grid reference
- ST 473 096
- Coordinates
- 50.88395, -2.74963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Garden House is a detached house dating from the 17th century, with later modifications in the late 20th century. It is constructed of ham stone coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a plain clay tiled roof between high coped gables, suggesting a former thatched roof. The east gable has a gabletted finial, while the west gable has an ashlar chimney stack. The house is arranged in an L-plan layout.
The north elevation is five bays and has random fenestration. It features hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses. Bay 1 has a 3-light window to the first floor and a 2-light window to the ground floor, both 20th-century replacements. Bay 3 has a 3-light window to the ground floor, while bay 4 features 4-light windows on both levels. A small outshut or lean-to bay is located on the far right (bay 5) and contains a door and a casement window. Doorways are positioned to the first floor of bay 2, accessed by stone stairs, and to the ground floor of bay 2, to the right of the staircase.
The south elevation features a wing at the west end, which was formerly separated from the main building. All windows on this side are ovolo-mould mullioned, and there is a roughly central cambered-arched doorway. The interior was not inspected. The building was originally assessed in an unpublished report prepared in 1975 by the Victoria and Albert Museum, prior to the house's restoration, when it was used as a farm store.
Local climate
Old Garden House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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