Crimchard House and Attached Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. House.
Crimchard House and Attached Railings
- WRENN ID
- small-soffit-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crimchard House and Attached Railings, Chard Town
- OS grid reference
- ST 317 092
- Coordinates
- 50.87867, -2.97092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crimchard House is a house dating from the late 17th century, with remodels around 1820 and 1860. It is constructed of squared flint and limestone, featuring limestone dressings and quoins, topped with a crested slate roof and brick stacks at the gable ends and right-of-centre. The house has a double-depth plan, with a three-room wide front range from around 1700 and a service wing at the rear right. It stands two storeys high and has a four-window range.
All front windows are painted stone mullioned casements from around 1860, with labelled hoodmoulds. The outer windows on both floors have five lights, while the window above the porch has three lights. There is a projecting square porch with a simple entablature and square columns to the left of centre, and a two-storey, three-light canted bay to the right of centre. The rear wing features a late 17th-century hollow-moulded stone mullioned window.
Inside, the hall has polychromatic tiles from 1860, with an elliptical arch leading to an open-well stair at the rear, featuring cast-iron balusters and a wreathed mahogany rail from around 1860. The left and centre front rooms have cornices from 1860, with vine leaves in the left room and roses in the centre room. The far right room leads to the old scullery, which has a flagstone floor. The cornice on the first-floor landing and passage dates to around 1820.
Additionally, there are attached cast-iron forecourt railings from around 1860, designed in a Gothic style and set on a stone plinth.
Local climate
Crimchard House and Attached Railings receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% 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 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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