West Coker House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
West Coker House
- WRENN ID
- blind-foundation-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- West Coker House, Ryefields Close, BA22 9BW
- OS grid reference
- ST 522 133
- Coordinates
- 50.91745, -2.68058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Coker House is a house that consists of various builds from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of ham stone ashlar with carved work and has a Welsh slate roof with a stone slate base course. The main roof is hipped with projecting coped gables and some parapets, along with stone chimney stacks. The house is two storeys with an attic and features a 7-bay irregular main facade.
Bays 1 to 3 represent an early 19th-century section, featuring plain sash windows with single dividing bars in bays 1 and 2, while bay 3 has an oval window on the ground floor above which is a margined staircase window. Bay 4 is the first part of the main block, appearing to be a late 19th-century addition, with an ornamental angled bay window that has plain sashes, and an attic window in the gable above. Bay 5 has margined sashes on each level and a 20th-century flat-roofed dormer. Bay 6, also a late 19th-century addition, projects and features a quasi-shell hood over the doorway with two flanking sashes in an early art nouveau style. Above, there are two plain sashes in raised surrounds flanking a coat of arms, with a swept string course leading to a decorated attic window. Bay 7 is likely an 18th-century fragment, with a plain sash below and a 12-pane sash above, complemented by an eaves cornice.
There is a single-storey bay projecting to the east and a possibly refronted 18th-century outbuilding to the west, which is now used as offices. The house has historical connections with the Almshouses and Cross House and was a private school in the late 19th century.
Local climate
West Coker House 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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