Merryfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. Detached house.
Merryfield House
- WRENN ID
- carved-pewter-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1987
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Merryfield House, Church Road, Ilton
- OS grid reference
- ST 351 173
- Coordinates
- 50.95209, -2.92394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merryfield House is a large detached house that was formerly the vicarage, built in the late 19th century. It is constructed from stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features Welsh slate roofs with saw-tooth ridges and coped gables, along with brick chimney stacks. The house has an H-plan layout and consists of two storeys with attics, arranged in six bays.
The exterior includes a plinth and string courses, with chamfer-mullioned windows; the lower windows have transoms. In the first bay, there are three single-light windows below, a four-light window on the first floor, and slit windows in the gable of the north crosswing. The second bay features a six-light window below and an eight-light window above. The third bay has a projecting single-storey porch with corner buttresses and a pointed arched doorway. The fourth bay has five-light windows on both main floors, with a slit window in the attic gable. The fifth bay is slightly set back, with a two-light window above and a three-light window below. The sixth bay is the forward projection of the south crosswing, which has no window below, a transomed four-light window on the first floor, and a two-light attic window. There is an additional doorway in the north gable.
The interior has not been seen. Merryfield House has important group value with the Church of St. Peter and is significant in the streetscape.
Local climate
Merryfield House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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