Garden House, About 50 Metres West of Poundisford Park is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. A C17 Garden house.
Garden House, About 50 Metres West of Poundisford Park
- WRENN ID
- eastward-mantel-tallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- Garden house
- OS grid reference
- ST 222 201
- Coordinates
- 50.97594, -3.10944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden House, located about 50 meters west of Poundisford Park, is a 17th-century garden house constructed of red brick in English bond. It features a pyramid bell-cast slate roof with overhanging eaves and a deep carved modillion cornice. The building is a single cell and a single storey high, showcasing a broken pediment with a central console bracket and a dentil cornice. The façade includes shaped console end brackets and central double doors, with half-glazed moulded surrounds for the fixed light side windows. There are also a pair of oval bulls-eye openings on the returns, one of which is blocked. At the top, there is a wooden carved finial with a wrought iron weathervane. Inside, the house has a contemporary moulded pilaster frieze.
Local climate
Garden House, About 50 Metres West of Poundisford Park receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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