Ball Court (Fives Tower) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Tower.
Ball Court (Fives Tower)
- WRENN ID
- low-gable-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Ball Court (Fives Tower), High Street, Milborne Port, DT9 5AG
- OS grid reference
- ST 676 186
- Coordinates
- 50.96604, -2.46178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ball Court, also known as Fives Tower, is a structure dated 1847 located on the south side of High Street in Milborne Port. It is built from local stone, featuring one bay of rubble coursed stone and one bay of ashlar. The building has a Lias stone plinth and stepped pitched copings, with walls that rise to 6 meters high. Stepped buttresses, projecting about 4 meters at the base, divide the wall into bays of approximately 6 meters. On the west gable of the house at the northern end, there is a stone plaque that reads: "The Ball Court Built by Sir W.C Medlycotte in the year 1847. It is earnestly hoped that this court which is meant for the health and amusement of the town will be protected from injury."
Local climate
Ball Court (Fives Tower) receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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