Peregrine House, St Audrie's School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. School. 1 related planning application.
Peregrine House, St Audrie's School
- WRENN ID
- small-chamber-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- Peregrine House, St Audrie's School, West Quantoxhead, TA4 4DS
- OS grid reference
- ST 111 418
- Coordinates
- 51.16926, -3.27199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Peregrine House at St. Audrie's School is a school building constructed between 1856 and 1857, designed by architect John Norton for Sir Alexander Acland-Hood. The building is made of random rubble Sampford Brett red sandstone with Bath stone dressings. It features quoins, scalloped tiles, decorative ridge tiles, overhanging eaves, sprockets, and coped verges. The south front has an ashlar double stack chimney on the left and a large external stepped stack with a moulded cap on the right. The building has a T-plan with the entrance on the west front and a lower gabled south front, designed in the Gothic style.
The entrance front includes two gabled dormers with paired trefoil-headed openings, where the original mullions have been replaced with 20th-century casements. To the left of the central entrance is a long narrow stair light, and to the right is a two-light aulic window with a transom. The doorway has a four-centred arch head and features a 19th-century plank door with decorative hinges and a latch. It is sheltered by a gabled bell-cast porch adorned with scalloped tiles and decorative ridge tiles, some of which are missing. The porch has a cusped bargeboard supported by a wooden trefoil-headed arcade and a dwarf wall made of random rubble with chamfered quoins and a plinth.
On the right return, the gabled three-bay south front displays the Acland-Hood coat of arms set into the chimney breast. It also features a gabled bell-cote pierced with two trefoiled-headed arches and a quatrefoil opening above, located on the east gable end. Originally built as the village school, it is now part of St. Audries School.
Local climate
Peregrine House, St Audrie's School receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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