The Court House and Forecourt Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. A C18 House.
The Court House and Forecourt Wall
- WRENN ID
- calm-pilaster-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Court House and Forecourt Wall, Church Street, Cheddar
- OS grid reference
- ST 459 531
- Coordinates
- 51.27493, -2.77676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Court House is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It is built of brick with rusticated freestone quoins and features a parapet with moulded stone coping, coped verges, and a pantile roof with rendered stacks, as well as a further brick stack at the rear. The building has two storeys and three bays, with 16-pane sash windows; the ground floor windows are slightly larger than those on the first floor. Each window has rusticated stone surrounds and stepped voussoirs.
At the center, there is a half-hexagonal brick porch with rusticated stone quoins, leading to a semi-circular headed door opening in a rusticated surround, which is flanked by paired three-quarter glazed doors. Each angle of the porch has a semi-circular head window, and it has a flat roof. The inner door is in a reeded surround and is a six-panelled door with a fanlight featuring radiating glazing bars.
To the right, there is a two-bay wing of lower height that is set back and has casement windows, likely indicating it is an earlier house. The forecourt is enclosed by a rubble wall with a central wrought iron gate.
Local climate
The Court House and Forecourt Wall receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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