Wadbury and Attached Courtyard Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Country house. 5 related planning applications.
Wadbury and Attached Courtyard Wall
- WRENN ID
- endless-mullion-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Wadbury and Attached Courtyard Wall, Mells, BA11 3PA
- OS grid reference
- ST 737 489
- Coordinates
- 51.23924, -2.37799
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a country house dating to 1840, designed by James Wilson of Bath for Thomas Fussell. It is constructed of Bath stone ashlar, with a slate roof and ashlar stacks featuring elaborate caps, some paired and connected by a small semi-circular arch, with wide bracketed eaves. The design is of an irregular plan in the Italianate style. The house has two storeys, with a 1:3:1 bay arrangement; the left bay is slightly set forward and features paired semi-circular head sash windows with marginal lights in stone surrounds to the first floor, below a large semi-circular headed niche. The central three bays have casements within segmental headed recesses on the first floor, and sash windows with glazing bars in deep semi-circular headed recesses with moulded voussoirs below. The right bay, also slightly set forward, is a three-storey tower with sash windows in similar openings. The third storey is set back slightly behind a moulded band and features triple semi-circular headed openings, one blank, one with a sash window with marginal glazing bars. A broad bracketed cornice sits above the main house, surmounted by a pierced parapet. The central door is within a deep semi-circular headed recess, with double panelled doors with studding and a fanlight with glazing bars above. A projecting carriage porch extends from the centre of the building, with Ionic pilasters, paired on each side supporting three segmental headed openings with fluted keystones and topped by a dentillated cornice and blocking course. A wall to the left encloses a courtyard, built of squared and coursed Doulting stone with a moulded coping. It features a pair of ashlar gate piers with moulded pyramidal cappings, a doorway with a moulded hood on brackets, and a plank door. The interior contains contemporary plasterwork and fireplaces to the ground floor rooms.
Local climate
Wadbury and Attached Courtyard Wall receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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