The Old Prebendal House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Vicarage, house.

The Old Prebendal House

WRENN ID
moated-chamber-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1987
Type
Vicarage, house
Address
The Old Prebendal House, Cudworth
OS grid reference
ST 373 108
Coordinates
50.89414, -2.8919
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Prebendal House is a former vicarage, now a private house, built in the 17th century and modified in the 19th century. It is constructed of Ham stone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with plain overhung gables and stone end chimney stacks. The building has a 'T'-plan layout, is two storeys high with an attic, and has a symmetrical facade with three bays.

The exterior includes a plinth and ovolo-mould mullioned windows set in wave-mould recesses. The lower bay features a 4-light window with labels, while the upper bay has a 3-light window with flat lintel-heads on the outer bays, along with a 19th-century 2-light chamfered mullioned window in the upper bay. There is a 19th-century door in the lower bay, protected by an open timber porch, above which is the water table for an earlier porch.

On the west gable, there are chamfer-mullioned windows at each level: a 4-light window on the ground floor, a 3-light window on the first floor, and a 2-light window in the attic, all of which are now blind. The east gable has blocked 3-light windows on the ground and first floors, with signs of a former attic window. The rear elevation includes another 4-light mullioned window, and the rear extension features a window made from a former cambered-arched doorframe.

Internally, the house has a plan of three rooms, with the rear extension serving as the kitchen. This area includes a cambered-arched fireplace in the north gable wall and an oven alongside, along with a curing chamber. Other rooms have been adapted with 19th-century fireplaces behind blocked windows. The unusual plan is clearly described in a Glebe Terrier from 1636, making it identifiable in historical records.

Local climate

The Old Prebendal House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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