Knott Oak House and Attached Outbuildings to the Right is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Knott Oak House and Attached Outbuildings to the Right
- WRENN ID
- patient-attic-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Knott Oak House and Attached Outbuildings to the Right, Ilminster, TA19 0JA
- OS grid reference
- ST 371 144
- Coordinates
- 50.92619, -2.89583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knott Oak House is a house composed of an early 18th-century block to the right and a mid-19th-century block to the left, with attached outbuildings to the right. The early 18th-century block is constructed of limestone rubble with slate roofing and is two units in plan. The mid-19th-century block has a thatched roof and a double-depth plan and is two storeys high. Its symmetrical front has a three-window range. A projecting Tuscan porch of Ham Hill stone shelters a wide door with three long panels above and three short ones below. Above the porch is a three-light stone mullioned casement window. Ground floor canted bays flank the sides, featuring two-over-two pane sash windows. Above these are wide pointed-arch stone mullioned windows, three lights, with Gothic-style intersecting glazing bars to the top. These windows break through the eaves, forming half-dormers with fretted bargeboards and pendants. The right side of the early 18th-century block features a wide planked door with an inserted window, alongside a three-light stone mullioned casement window to the right and a taller, four-light window to the left, all with plate glass. The mullions are square section with beaded edges. The rear of the mid-19th-century block has small three-light casements under wooden lintels, although a large sash stair window in the centre suggests a possible remodelling of an older building. Internally, the early 18th-century block has a flagstone floor and features a large, flat-arched stone fireplace with a keystone against the far right wall. Original latches are found on the planked doors. The mid-19th-century block has a wide hall with an open-well staircase, panelled reveals to the doorcase of the left-hand room, and a reeded cast-iron hob-grate in a slate surround. Four units of outbuildings, constructed of similar materials and likely dating to the 19th century, are attached to the right; the two closest to the house are heated.
Local climate
Knott Oak House and Attached Outbuildings to the Right 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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