Bowling Green House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1982. Country house.

Bowling Green House

WRENN ID
dim-gravel-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1982
Type
Country house
Address
Bowling Green House, Crackmore, Milborne Port
OS grid reference
ST 669 183
Coordinates
50.96329, -2.47163
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bowling Green House is a country house that began construction in 1914, designed by E. Guy Dawber for the de Montmorency family. It is built from local stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a plain clay tile roof with simple gabled stone chimney stacks. The house has an 'L' plan layout, consisting of two storeys and five bays on the north elevation, with a four-bay return extending northwards. The design reflects a severe Cotswolds style.

The north front is asymmetrical, with projecting gables on bays 1, 3, and 5, while the center bay is smaller. The windows have architraved surrounds and are mostly leaded steel casements, typically with two lights. The doorway in bay 3 features a pair of three-panel doors within a bolection mould surround, topped by a broken pediment on console brackets that displays the arms of Montmorency with a peacock crest. Bay 5 includes a three-light window next to a transomed mezzanine staircase window. The northward return matches the main elevation, featuring a simple part-glazed door in bay 2, also with an architraved surround and a flat hood supported by corbel brackets.

A dated stackhead is present on the west elevation, and all other elevations are designed to match. The interior is not accessible, but the house appears to have changed little over time, with notable plasterwork in the hall attributed to Bankart.

Local climate

Bowling Green House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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