Holwell House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1986. House.
Holwell House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-parapet-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holwell House, Chipstable
- OS grid reference
- ST 039 271
- Coordinates
- 51.03585, -3.37094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holwell House is an early 19th-century house located in Chipstable Village. The building features roughcast over rubble and has a shallow pitched, bitumen-covered slate roof with overhanging eaves on the south front. It has brick stacks at the gable ends and is designed in an L-plan, with the site sloping away to the east and rising steeply to the south.
The main elevation on the south front consists of three bays and is three storeys tall with a cellar on the east front. The second floor has a tripartite arrangement of two 3-pane sash windows, with a blind central square opening. Below this, there are 12-pane tripartite sash windows, including a central 12-pane sash window flanked by similar windows. The entrance features half-glazed double doors with engraved glass panels and a flat roof porch.
The right return, or east front, has an unlit gable end with a square-headed entrance to the cellar. To the right, there is a two-storey outshut over the cellar, which includes 20th-century 12-pane sash windows and a 2-light unglazed opening to the cellar.
Local climate
Holwell House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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