Forecourt Walls and Garden Room to Stowey Court is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1963. Garden room.

Forecourt Walls and Garden Room to Stowey Court

WRENN ID
vacant-hearth-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 March 1963
Type
Garden room
Address
Forecourt Walls and Garden Room to Stowey Court, Nether Stowey
OS grid reference
ST 196 396
Coordinates
51.15038, -3.15075
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The forecourt walls and garden room to Stowey Court feature some elements from the 16th century, but they have likely been largely rebuilt in the 17th century and later. The walls are constructed from random blue lias rubble and enclose a grassed forecourt. The walls on the north and south sides are approximately 50 meters long, while the east wall is about 40 meters long. The north wall includes a chamfered 4-centred arch door opening set in a dressed stone surround, along with two semi-circular head door openings made with rough hewn voussoirs. The east wall has a single pointed arch door opening in a moulded surround with a plank door and moulded coping. The south wall features two broad carriageways in moulded 4-centred stone surrounds with stopped labels; the western end of this wall is blocked and has a 17th-century door opening with a semi-circular head, highlighted by a keystone and imposts, and this section also has moulded coping.

At the northeast corner of the forecourt stands a two-storey garden room, likely from the 18th century but rebuilt in 1974. It has a rubble frontage with brick quoins and a parapet with coping, topped by a corrugated plastic pent roof. The ground floor has two tall segmental-headed window openings in brick surrounds with 20th-century casements, as well as two brick-lined semi-circular head coved niches on the first floor and a central blocked circular opening. The ground floor also features a central semi-circular head door opening with a brick surround and paired 20th-century glazed doors. The north wall has a lower inner wall at the rear, which appears to be the ground floor of a former building. There is a raised terraced walk between the two walls supported on brick vaulting, with a flight of stone steps at the west end.

Local climate

Forecourt Walls and Garden Room to Stowey Court receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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