Sherston Lodge, Sherston House and Evercreech House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1961. Country house. 9 related planning applications.
Sherston Lodge, Sherston House and Evercreech House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-railing-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1961
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Sherston Lodge, Sherston House and Evercreech House, High Street, BA4 6HZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 648 388
- Coordinates
- 51.14737, -2.5045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sherston Lodge, Sherston House, and Evercreech House is a country house that has been divided into three dwellings. It dates from the mid to late 18th century, with some 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of rubble, mostly coursed and squared, with freestone dressings, and features hipped roofs made of slate and asbestos slate, along with brick, rendered, and ashlar stacks.
The house is designed in a classical style with an irregular layout made up of three distinct sections. The left wing facing the road is two stories high and has three bays. It features corner pilasters, a plain first-floor band, a moulded cornice, and a parapet with coping. The twelve-pane sash windows are set in moulded freestone surrounds. To the right, there is a door opening with paired panelled doors, likely from the 20th century, flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters and topped with a 20th-century slated wooden porch supported by two square Doric columns. This section maintains a consistent style on its other elevations.
Attached to the north is a two-storey wing that is lower in height, featuring wide bracketed eaves and fixed-light twelve-pane casements in moulded stone architraves on the first floor. There are two door openings with three-quarter glazed doors, one of which is in a fluted surround. The north face of this wing has three full-height canted bays with pyramidal roofs and tripartite windows, predominantly sashes on the ground floor, while the first floor has Venetian windows with sashes, where the heads of the centre windows have radiating glazing bars. A further six-bay range attached to the west, which was formerly the service quarters, has three and four-light stone-mullioned windows.
Inside, there are notable features including ornamental plasterwork such as cornices and a frieze, a staircase, and an early to mid-19th-century fireplace. The building is believed to have been the home of General Charles George Gordon, who lived from 1833 to 1885 and was killed at Khartoum.
Local climate
Sherston Lodge, Sherston House and Evercreech House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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