Wyndham Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. Museum.
Wyndham Museum
- WRENN ID
- open-ledge-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Wyndham Museum, Hendford, Yeovil
- OS grid reference
- ST 554 157
- Coordinates
- 50.93936, -2.63502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wyndham Museum, originally a stable block for Hendford Manor House, is an 18th-century building that now serves as the Yeovil Museum. It is constructed of early to mid-brick with Ham stone dressings and features a plain clay tile hipped roof. The building has a rectangular plan with a slight projection on the south flank and is two stories tall.
The main entrance is located on the narrow west elevation, which has three bays and a deep stone plinth with an approach stairway. The central entrance consists of a pair of three-panel doors framed by a simple stone surround that supports a cornice. On either side at ground floor level, there are narrow pairs of eight-pane sash windows set in raised surrounds with plain central mullions. Above the entrance door is a Venetian window, flanked by two circular windows that have five radial glazing bars, although the left-hand side is false.
The south side elevation has five bays, with the center three being wider but otherwise mirroring the west elevation, although the doors have been replaced with 16-pane sash windows. The outer bays project slightly and feature high semi-circular arched openings that are now glazed in, with no windows above. A moulded stone gutter runs around the entire building, while the other two elevations have been significantly altered. The interior was not inspected, but an old water pump remains mounted on the south wall.
Local climate
Wyndham Museum receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 64% 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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