The Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. House.
The Rectory
- WRENN ID
- haunted-stair-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Rectory, Church Street, West Coker
- OS grid reference
- ST 517 135
- Coordinates
- 50.91974, -2.68836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory is a house, now serving as a rectory, built in the 18th century and refaced in the early 19th century. It is constructed of ham stone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with coped gables. The east bay has a hipped roof behind a parapet with a balustraded panel, and there are stone and brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high, with an attic, and consists of four bays, with the fourth bay likely being a later addition.
Notable architectural features include a plinth, rusticated quoins, a cornice, and a parapet. The plain sash windows have single dividing bars, with double bars in bays one and three, all set in architraved surrounds. The projecting stone porch in bay one is supported by Ionic columns and features a full entablature, with later 19th-century double doors that have ornamental leaded glass panels. The attic windows behind the parapet in bays one and three have segmental lead-covered roofs. Bay four includes a single-storey angled bay window with a pierced ornamental parapet, a string course, and rusticated quoins, while the upper window is set in a keystoned architrave. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Rectory receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 66% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
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