Eyewell House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1982. House.
Eyewell House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-hall-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Eyewell House, Traits Lane, Queen Camel
- OS grid reference
- ST 587 252
- Coordinates
- 51.02554, -2.58968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eyewell House is a detached house built between 1924 and 1925 by Sir E Guy Dawber for Major G C S Hodgson. It is constructed from local lias stone that has been cut and squared, topped with a plain clay tile roof that is hipped and features a wide eaves overhang. The house has stone chimney stacks with moulded caps.
The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a four-bay entrance elevation facing north, where the third bay projects. The façade includes an ashlar plinth and small pane casement windows set in voussoired segmental arched openings, with three-light windows in bays one and two, and a two-light window in bay two. Bay three features a six-panel door within a wood surround that has fluted pilasters and a pediment, along with a 20-pane sash window above it. There is a semi-circular three-light window in the attic gable, and bay four has single-light windows in the corners on both levels. Dormer windows with lead flat roofs flank the gable of bay three, while the outer chimney stacks are notably tall and connected to the main roof by short false roofs.
Additionally, there is a single-storey L-plan extension added to the east gable in 1925. The other elevations of the house maintain a similar character. The interior of Eyewell House remains largely unaltered. The property is currently held by the Ministry of Defence (Admiralty).
Local climate
Eyewell House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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 56% 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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