The Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Court House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-zinc-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Court House, St Marys Street, Axbridge, BS26 2BN
- OS grid reference
- ST 431 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28691, -2.81629
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Court House is a house, likely dating to around 1796. It is located on the south side of St Mary's Street, Axbridge. The building is rendered with corner pilasters and a moulded cornice, topped with a coping and a plain parapet. It has a slate roof and two rendered chimney stacks.
The symmetrical frontage features three bays with sash windows, some containing glazing bars. The window at the centre of the first floor has a semi-circular head and radiating glazing bars. A plain band runs along the first floor. The central door opening contains a recessed six-panelled door and a fanlight with radiating glazed bars, surmounted by an open pediment on pilasters. A two-storey wing adjoins the main house on the left, featuring a six-panelled door and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. To the right of the frontage, at a right angle, is a gateway with a pair of ornamental wrought and cast iron gates.
The interior retains features contemporary with the construction of the building.
Local climate
The Court House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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