The Old Sheriffs Office is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. A Early Modern House.

The Old Sheriffs Office

WRENN ID
half-lime-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1985
Type
House
Period
Early Modern
Address
The Old Sheriffs Office, 13, West Street, Axbridge, BS26 2AA
OS grid reference
ST 428 545
Coordinates
51.2876, -2.82083
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Sheriffs Office is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a rendered exterior and has two prominent forward-facing gables adorned with cusped 19th-century bargeboards. The roof is covered with pantiles and there are two brick ridge stacks. The building is two storeys high with attics and consists of three bays.

On the first floor, there are three-light 19th-century casements set in chamfered "block" surrounds, while the gables have two-light casements in similar surrounds. To the left of the ground floor, there is a flat-roofed canted bay with 24 lights, also in a "block" surround. To the right, there is a broad 20th-century six-light casement in a slight recess, featuring an overhanging and chamfered lintel. The central door opening is framed in a chamfered "block" surround with an ovolo moulded wooden doorframe, leading to a 20th-century plank door topped by a flat 20th-century wooden hood. The building may have originally included timber framing.

Local climate

The Old Sheriffs Office receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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