Little Court and Wall Closing Courtyard is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. Stable, dwelling. 1 related planning application.

Little Court and Wall Closing Courtyard

WRENN ID
fallow-obsidian-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1955
Type
Stable, dwelling
Address
Little Court and Wall Closing Courtyard, Ash Priors
OS grid reference
ST 152 293
Coordinates
51.05755, -3.21054
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Court and the wall closing the courtyard are stables that have been converted into a dwelling. They date from the early 19th century and were converted in the late 20th century. The building is designed in a Gothick style, featuring roughcast over rubble, hipped wings, and a gabled center with tetrahedrons on the kneelers, all topped with slate roofs. The center section is two stories tall, while the wings are single-story with attics, arranged in a 1:1:1 bay pattern. The windows include ogee-headed sashes and a large late 20th-century ogee-headed window with many panes inserted in the ground floor center, along with a circular opening at the apex of the gable and a string course below. There is a gabled dormer on the left return of the right wing, with an entrance below through a late 20th-century door. The building is surrounded by a square courtyard formed by a low random rubble wall without coping stones, which abuts the wings and sweeps down to a central late 20th-century gate (not included). This structure was originally built as the stables for Court House.

Local climate

Little Court and Wall Closing Courtyard 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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