Two Summerhouses and the Linking Brick Wall, North West Boundary of Fordhay House (From 2 Metres to 20 Metres South of Fordhay House) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. A C18 Summerhouse.
Two Summerhouses and the Linking Brick Wall, North West Boundary of Fordhay House (From 2 Metres to 20 Metres South of Fordhay House)
- WRENN ID
- fallow-quartz-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Summerhouse
- OS grid reference
- ST 495 129
- Coordinates
- 50.91396, -2.71957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two summerhouses and a linking brick wall are located on the northwest boundary of Fordhay House, from 2 metres to 20 metres south of the house. These structures date from the 18th century and are built of red brick with stone dressings. They feature a Welsh slate roof with a stone slate base course and lead dressings, along with shaped elm board verges on the garden side. The summerhouses are half-oval in plan and have timber seats around the garden side. Inside, there are five recessed panels on the walls, with stone panels in the center that include a small diamond-shaped viewing aperture set in an oval recess. The ceilings are very shallow domes beneath conical roofs, which are topped with stone ball finials. The two summerhouses are identical. The linking brick wall stands about 2.25 metres high. According to tradition, these structures served as look-out posts to alert the innkeeper of approaching carriages to Fordhay House.
Local climate
Two Summerhouses and the Linking Brick Wall, North West Boundary of Fordhay House (From 2 Metres to 20 Metres South of Fordhay House) receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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