Midelney Place, Walled Forecourt, and Stable is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Country house. 3 related planning applications.
Midelney Place, Walled Forecourt, and Stable
- WRENN ID
- winding-rubble-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Midelney Place, Walled Forecourt, and Stable, Churchway, Drayton, TA10 0NU
- OS grid reference
- ST 400 253
- Coordinates
- 51.02462, -2.85606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Midelney Place is a country house set in an emparked landscape, built in 1868 by James Piers St Aubyn for the Trevillion family. The house features coursed and squared rubble with Hamstone dressings and tile roofs that have crested ridges along the coped verges. It is designed in a High Victorian Tudor-Gothic style, with an asymmetrical entrance front and a symmetrical garden front, and includes lower service quarters to the north.
The building is two storeys with an attic and has an entrance front with four bays, where the right bay projects under a front-facing gable. The windows are stone-mullioned, with one, two, three, and five lights, each light topped with an arched head and stopped labels. There are two attic windows in front-facing gabled dormers. The second bay from the left features a two-storeyed gabled porch with two-stage diagonal buttresses, a two-light window on the first floor, and a pointed-arch door opening surrounded by rich moulding, leading to an ornamental ribbed door. To the left of the porch is a three-light transomed stair-light.
The garden front has five bays, with the outer bays forming projecting wings. The windows here are also stone-mullioned, with two, three, and four lights, and the ground floor windows are transomed. The right wing includes a canted oriel window on the first floor. Inside, the house boasts high-quality fittings in the Tudor-Gothic style, including coffered ceilings in the ground floor rooms, elaborate freestone chimneypieces, a well staircase with panelled newels and turned balusters, and a library with fitted shelving.
The entrance front is complemented by a walled forecourt with tile coping. On the east side, there is a late 19th-century stable block with a tile roof, which includes a throughway providing access to fitted stalls inside.
Local climate
Midelney Place, Walled Forecourt, and Stable receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- 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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