Church House and Pound Adjoining to North West is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. A C16, C20 Church house. 2 related planning applications.

Church House and Pound Adjoining to North West

WRENN ID
leaning-sill-moss
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1969
Type
Church house
Address
Church House and Pound Adjoining to North West, TA4 4AA
OS grid reference
ST 140 366
Coordinates
51.12291, -3.22975
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church House and the adjoining pound were built around 1515 and restored in 1908. The structure is made of red sandstone random rubble with stone dressings and features a slate roof with coped verges and a stone stack on the right. It has two storeys and four bays, with all windows being two-light, hollow chamfered, and featuring stone mullions with leaded panes. A coved string course runs along the building. On the ground floor, there are three windows to the right and one to the left of a pair of four-centred arch doorways, which have moulded architraves and early 20th-century plank doors with decorative hinges. An external stone stair on the left side provides access to the first floor.

Inside, there is a fine seven-bay arch-braced collar purlin roof supported by three tiers of curved wind braces. The right return features a red sandstone rubble wall about two meters high, topped with 'hit and miss' coping, which encloses the pound and has a depressed arch entrance with rusticated voussoirs. A 20th-century wooden gate is set on the east side. The wall returns to Church House, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No.27).

Local climate

Church House and Pound Adjoining to North West receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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