Seavington House, and Front Boundary Walling and Railing is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1958. House.
Seavington House, and Front Boundary Walling and Railing
- WRENN ID
- little-cloister-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- Seavington House, and Front Boundary Walling and Railing, Church Lane, Seavington St. Michael
- OS grid reference
- ST 410 151
- Coordinates
- 50.93318, -2.84055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Seavington House is a detached house built in the early 19th century, before 1839. It is constructed of ham stone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and brick end chimney stacks. The house has three storeys and three bays, with a plinth, an eaves cornice that includes a secret gutter, and plain end pilasters. The windows are 16-pane sash windows in plain openings that decrease in size. The lower bay features a Regency style six-panel door, accessed by three steps, and is sheltered by an open stone porch supported by Tuscan columns on panelled plinths, without wall pilasters, and topped with a plain entablature and flat roof.
To the south gable, there is a single-storey extension with a swept coping roof, a plain pilaster, and a matching 16-pane sash window. A corresponding north wing was demolished in the 1960s or 1970s for road widening. The interior has not been seen.
The front boundary features a mid-20th century reconstructed stone wall that curves from the north-west corner to the gateway opposite the porch. Beyond this, there is a low stone wall with wrought-iron spearpoint railings, which have arch-braced uncapped standards, matching gates, and curve around to a moulded coped ashlar wall about 1.2 metres high that returns to the south-west corner of the extension. The railings and south walling significantly enhance the setting of the house and the overall streetscape. By 1839, Seavington House was at the centre of the largest farm in the parish.
Local climate
Seavington House, and Front Boundary Walling and Railing receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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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