House, Formerly Church of St John Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. House.
House, Formerly Church of St John Baptist
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- House, Formerly Church of St John Baptist, Lovington
- OS grid reference
- ST 581 308
- Coordinates
- 51.07541, -2.5983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a house that was formerly the Church of St John Baptist. It has origins dating back to the 13th century and was converted into a house in the 1970s. The structure is made of local grey lias stone that has been cut and squared, with Doulting stone dressings. It features a Welsh slate roof over stone slate base courses, with coped gables and a cross finial at the east end. The base of a bell turret, which once held two bells, is located on the west side, along with a stone chimney stack.
The house has a single-cell plan consisting of five bays, with no external distinction between the nave and chancel. On the south elevation, there are four single light cusped windows set in ogee-mould recesses, lacking labels. In the second bay, there is a projecting gabled porch that contains a semi-circular arched doorway with a boarded door featuring an inserted light. Inside the porch, there is a chamfered pointed arched doorway and a small canopied statue niche in the east wall. Between the fourth and fifth bays, there is a narrow moulded pointed arched doorway, above which is a modern two-light window in a gabled dormer.
The west wall features a large pointed arch with curtain walling, which has been infilled with French doors. The east window consists of three lancets with a trifle arched label that has plain stops, flanked by two small 20th-century circular windows. The north wall has similar details to the south wall, minus the porch. Although the interior was not inspected, it is noted that there is a survival of a ribbed barrel vault ceiling. The conversion from church to house has been carried out without significantly altering the building's special interest on the exterior.
Local climate
House, Formerly Church of St John Baptist receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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