Weacombe House is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Country house. 3 related planning applications.
Weacombe House
- WRENN ID
- south-wicket-meadow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Weacombe House, West Quantoxhead, TA4 4EB
- OS grid reference
- ST 109 406
- Coordinates
- 51.15781, -3.27463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Weacombe House is a country house dating from the mid-18th century, with alterations made around 1820. It is constructed with a render finish over ashlar, incorporating Ham stone dressings, and has a hipped slate roof concealed behind a parapet. The building features a modillion cornice with a shallow pediment over the central bay, which projects slightly and is emphasised by quoins. The plan is double pile, with a long service wing to the rear.
The house has two storeys and six bays arranged as a 2:1:2 bay facade. The windows are 12-pane sashes, with the exception of the first-floor centre windows, which are two-tier casements. All windows and the central doorway have Gibbs surrounds. The doorway has a double door, partially glazed, and is sheltered by an early 19th-century flat-roofed Ham stone porch supported by paired Tuscan columns carrying a frieze of triglyphs and metopes, with a blank central panel. There are two bays to the right return and three bays to the left.
The interior retains a good selection of mid- to late-18th century plaster cornices and carved pine chimney pieces. The entrance hall has canted corners and a cantilevered staircase with double balusters and a cut string.
Weacombe House was formerly part of the St. Audries estate until 1835 and may have served as the dower house.
Local climate
Weacombe House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 1 transaction since 2005
- 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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