Rectory Court is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Vicarage. 2 related planning applications.

Rectory Court

WRENN ID
hallowed-sentry-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1987
Type
Vicarage
Address
Rectory Court, 1-6 Rectory Court, Rectory Gardens, Combe St. Nicholas, TA20 3NE
OS grid reference
ST 300 112
Coordinates
50.89688, -2.99582
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rectory Court, dating to around 1840, is a vicarage now divided into flats, built in an Italian villa style. It is constructed of squared and coursed chert stone with limestone dressings, with the garden front stuccoed. The building has hipped slate roofs with overhanging eaves, and a pyramid roof over the entrance tower.

The building is planned with an entrance tower at the east end fronting the road, a canted bay facing south on the garden front, and set into a hillside at the west end. The east front tower is three storeys plus an attic, with pilaster quoins and a rusticated ground floor. It contains a paired light opening to the attic with an ashlar surround and a flat string through the lintel of a wooden two-light oriel window with a modillion cornice and shaped brackets. To the right of the oriel is a twelve-pane sash window. The first floor has two tall arch-headed windows in ashlar surrounds, and a twelve-pane tripartite sash window to the right, with a six-pane sash below. The moulded entrance lintel has a semi-circular opening with incised spandrels and a panelled door, with a half-glazed inner door. The left return of the tower, facing the garden, was slightly modified in the 20th century and has a roughcast ground floor. The main block fronting the garden includes a full-height bow with three bays on each side, featuring twelve-pane sashes with keystones. The vicarage was divided into flats in the 1970s.

Local climate

Rectory Court receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% 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 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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  • Sale history — 20 transactions since 1995
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