The Coach House, Stables, Grooms House and Linking Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Coach House, stables, grooms house. 1 related planning application.

The Coach House, Stables, Grooms House and Linking Garden Walls

WRENN ID
quiet-alcove-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
Coach House, stables, grooms house
Address
The Coach House, Stables, Grooms House and Linking Garden Walls, Charlton Musgrove, BA9 8ES
OS grid reference
ST 726 302
Coordinates
51.07131, -2.3917
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Coach House, stables, groom's house, and linking garden walls date back to 1806. They are constructed from local stone rubble with ashlar dressings and feature a plain clay tiled roof. The buildings are arranged in a "T" plan and consist of a single storey with attics, displaying four bays with irregular fenestration. The west elevation has a central projecting gable that includes a "Y"-tracery window on the first floor, and above it is a plain oval plaque inscribed with "T L 1806". The rest of the windows are 20th-century casements with traceried glazing bars.

Located 10 metres to the west, linked by walling, is the groom's house, which is two storeys tall with one room on each floor and a small enclosed side staircase. There is a small 20th-century lean-to addition to the north. Twelve metres northwest of the groom's house are the stables, which match the other buildings and are single storey with six bays. The stables feature semi-circular "Y"-tracery windows in bays one and six, and segmental arched doorways in bays two and five, with modern casement windows in bays three and four.

The linking walls are made of rubble with flat stone copings, averaging three metres high, and they enclose the stable yard, kitchen garden, and fruit garden. The walls reach a height of four metres and are brick-lined on the inside. This complex forms a complete and attractive servants and kitchen garden setup for the former Charlton Musgrove Rectory, which was built in 1806 by the Leir family, who held the church living for about 200 years. The rectory was destroyed by fire around 1940.

Local climate

The Coach House, Stables, Grooms House and Linking Garden Walls receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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