Coach House and Adjacent Gate Piers, 10 Metres East of Barren Down House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Coach house.
Coach House and Adjacent Gate Piers, 10 Metres East of Barren Down House
- WRENN ID
- fallow-flint-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Coach house
- OS grid reference
- ST 620 437
- Coordinates
- 51.19201, -2.54401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The coach house and adjacent gate piers, located 10 metres east of Barren Down House, date from around 1800. They are built from rubble with squared quoins and feature freestone details, topped with a slate roof and coped verges. The structure is rectangular in shape and of high-quality construction, consisting of a single storey with two bays. On the left side, there is a wide doorway with a segmental arch head and a plain stone architrave. To the right, there is a square-headed doorway also with a plain architrave, flanked by 12-light sash windows in matching surrounds. A pitching eye is present in the left return. The adjacent gate piers are made of rusticated ashlar and have moulded capstones.
Local climate
Coach House and Adjacent Gate Piers, 10 Metres East of Barren Down 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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