Buckland House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. House. 1 related planning application.

Buckland House

WRENN ID
small-step-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1955
Type
House
Address
Buckland House, Durston
OS grid reference
ST 301 280
Coordinates
51.04719, -2.99821
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Buckland House, formerly known as Buckland Farmhouse, is a house located on the site of a preceptory and priory. It dates from the late 18th century and was altered around 1840. The exterior is rendered over rubble and features a shallow pitched hipped slate roof.

The north front of the house has three storeys and three bays, with nine-pane sash windows on the second floor, twelve-pane sash windows on the first floor (the center window is blind), and sixteen-pane sash windows on the ground floor. There is a flat-roofed aluminium porch flanking a plank door. The south front is two storeys high with recessed wings and 20th-century windows.

Inside, the ground floor on the north front has a two-cell layout and a cross passage, with large cells built into the hillside, featuring an internal arcade. The original staircase rose from the ground floor but has since been relocated to above. A medieval coffin plate can be found set into the floor of the cellar, but there is otherwise no evidence that the building incorporates parts of the preceptory or priory. Its unusual plan allows it to be described as a Janus house.

Local climate

Buckland House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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