Fordhay House, with Well 3 Metres to South is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House.

Fordhay House, with Well 3 Metres to South

WRENN ID
sunken-paling-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1961
Type
House
OS grid reference
ST 495 129
Coordinates
50.91419, -2.71929
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fordhay House, dated 1690, is a house constructed of local stone rubble with stone dressings. It features a Welsh slate roof between coped gables and has brick chimney stacks at both ends of the main block, as well as an intermediate stack for the extension. The building is two stories high and has three bays, with later extensions added to the east.

The windows are hollow chamfered with mullions, fitted with timber casement infills. The ground floor has three-light windows in bays one and three, and a two-light window in bay two. Above, there are casement windows set under exposed timber lintels. The entrance door, which is old and boarded, is located between bays two and three and is protected by a double hipped porch with a lead roof from the 19th century, supported by four cast-iron columns.

The extension has three bays, with two of them constructed using larger stones, and is separated by a coped gable on the east side. The 19th-century casement windows have segmental arched heads and heavy stone lintels above. On the east kneeler gable stone of the main block, the initials K or R and the date 1690 are incised.

On the west side, facing the road, there is a mounting block and steps. According to local tradition, the house was formerly an inn. Additionally, there is a well located about 3 meters south of the first extension, which is approximately 11 meters deep to the water, with old random stone walls below ground and a 20th-century wall above ground.

Local climate

Fordhay House, with Well 3 Metres to South receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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