Chipley Park and Wall Abutting South East Corner with Gatepier is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1956. Stables.
Chipley Park and Wall Abutting South East Corner with Gatepier
- WRENN ID
- mired-corridor-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1956
- Type
- Stables
- OS grid reference
- ST 116 237
- Coordinates
- 51.00636, -3.26014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chipley Park is a former stable building, dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, which has been converted into a dwelling in the 20th century. The structure is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with a red sandstone random rubble plinth, a moulded ashlar dado, and features a flat brick continuous string course. It has hipped slate roofs with coped verges on the gables and brick stacks in the end two bays on the left and rising from the eaves on the right.
The stable range faces south and was originally accessed from the north front. It has been rebuilt and extended in the 20th century, with a detached carriageway at the east end linked by a 20th-century brick gallery. The wall with gatepiers is located at the south-east corner. The building is one and a half storeys high, featuring two gabled bays on the left, a five-bay centre, and a gabled end bay on the right. There is a first-floor corridor linking one bay beyond the gabled dormers in the centre, with an early 18th-century leaded window in the second gable end on the left. The left end bay has a loft door with a 20th-century window in the centre, and three 20th-century casements flanking a central inserted doorway with a keystone and a half-glazed 20th-century door. The right end bay has been partly rebuilt and includes a blocked gable end opening and a window opening on the left, with extensive rebuilding at the rear in the 20th century.
The interior has not been seen. The wall, made of red brick in Flemish bond, is approximately 20 meters long and features clay tile coping that sweeps down to a square gatepier with a moulded brick cap plinth and a bell finial. There is a semi-circular headed doorway leading to a walled garden, with hood mould additions and an imported face terminal depicting a king and queen. The original house, which was likely built by Edward Clarke, a friend of philosopher John Locke, was located to the south-west with the walled garden behind it. The property passed by marriage to the Sandfords of Nynehead Court. The house was reportedly demolished in the late 19th century and does not appear in a photograph of the current house taken around 1910.
Local climate
Chipley Park and Wall Abutting South East Corner with Gatepier receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings