Winpenny House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. House.

Winpenny House

WRENN ID
night-stone-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1985
Type
House
Address
Winpenny House, Kingston St. Mary
OS grid reference
ST 222 296
Coordinates
51.06053, -3.11074
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Winpenny House is a house dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, possibly extended on the left side and reroofed in the early 19th century. The house was refenestrated on the north front in the early 20th century. It features roughcast over rubble with a hipped slate roof and overhanging eaves. There is a lower hipped service wing to the left. The building has a double pile plan with the service wing to the west.

It stands two storeys tall with a 1:4 bay arrangement; the main block is divided into 1:3 bays with a slightly projecting left bay. The first floor has a 16-pane sash window on the right and a 20th-century many-paned 2-light casement window on the left. On the ground floor, there is a similar casement window on the left and a 16-pane sash window on the right, flanking a six-panel raised and fielded door set in a semicircular headed recess. This door features a fanlight and is sheltered by a wooden trelliswork porch with a steeply pitched hipped lead roof. The service wing on the left also has 2-light casements.

The right return includes one 3-light 19th-century leaded iron casement, while the rest of the fenestration is early 20th-century with shutters. The rear elevation has similar features. The interior was altered in the early 20th century.

Local climate

Winpenny House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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