Ashlar House (Formerly Listed with the Clerks House As the Cedars) and Boundary Railings to North and East is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House.
Ashlar House (Formerly Listed with the Clerks House As the Cedars) and Boundary Railings to North and East
- WRENN ID
- silent-bastion-fern
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ashlar House (Formerly Listed with the Clerks House As the Cedars) and Boundary Railings to North and East, Pound Lane, Martock
- OS grid reference
- ST 461 191
- Coordinates
- 50.9689, -2.76893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashlar House, formerly known as The Cedars, is a semi-detached house located on the south side of Pound Lane in Martock. It dates back to the early 18th century and is constructed from ham stone ashlar with a hipped plain clay tile roof that is set behind parapets. The building features brick chimney stacks and is two storeys tall, measuring five bays by two bays.
The exterior includes a plinth, rusticated quoins, a cornice, and a low solid parapet with thin moulded coping. The windows are 12-pane sash types with thick glazing bars, framed by architraves. Notably, the lower bay three on the north face has a pair of four-panelled doors that are accessed by one step, set within an eaved architrave beneath a segmental pediment. The east elevation matches the design seen on Water Street.
Inside, the east room boasts an 18th-century fireplace and an early 20th-century bay window in the south wall. The interior also features six fielded panel doors and a fine 18th-century staircase with turned balusters and a fielded panel dado. A semi-circular arched stair window adds to the character of the space. The east bedroom includes an 18th-century fireplace, along with its original cornice and dado. The property is accompanied by boundary railings to the north and east.
Local climate
Ashlar House (Formerly Listed with the Clerks House As the Cedars) and Boundary Railings to North and East 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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