Barwick House and Orangery is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Country house, school. 3 related planning applications.
Barwick House and Orangery
- WRENN ID
- standing-jamb-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- Country house, school
- Address
- Barwick House and Orangery, Barwick and Stoford
- OS grid reference
- ST 560 142
- Coordinates
- 50.92635, -2.62645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barwick House and orangery are a country house, dating from around 1830, and later used as an approved school. The house appears to be a rebuilding or substantial remodelling of an earlier structure. It is constructed from Ham stone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof, coped gables, and stone chimney stacks. The architectural style is early 17th century, and the main facade, facing south-east, has nine bays. Bays 1 to 8 are three-storey and project forward, while bay 9 projects further and has a prominent gable. A semi-circular arched stone entrance porch with Doric corner columns and an openwork parapet topped with urns is located in bay 5. The ground floor windows on either side of the entrance are Venetian, with three-light sash windows above, while the remaining ground floor windows are large single-light sash windows with architraves and strapwork decoration over. The upper floors feature sash windows. Dutch-style pedimented gables with numerous urn pinnacles adorn the roofline. Attached to the north side, a single-storey orangery with three bays is present, featuring semi-circular arcades and highly decorative openwork parapets, though the roof was missing as of 1983. The interior of the house has not been inspected. Barwick House forms the focal point of the Barwick Park estate, which includes four surviving follies.
Local climate
Barwick House and Orangery receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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