The Old Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Court House
- WRENN ID
- wild-baluster-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Court House, East Street, Drayton, TA10 0JZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 406 247
- Coordinates
- 51.01925, -2.84715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Court House is a 17th-century house located on East Street in Drayton. It features coursed and squared rubble with freestone dressings, a double-Roman tile roof, coped verges, and three brick stacks. The building has a through-passage plan and stands two storeys high with four bays. It includes three and four-light moulded stone-mullioned windows with iron casements and leaded lights, along with continuous strings above the window heads. The door opening is situated in the second bay, featuring a studded plank door set in a moulded surround, with a label rising over the door opening. The interior is noted to be of interest.
Local climate
The Old Court House 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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