Bournes is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1956. House.
Bournes
- WRENN ID
- half-doorway-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bournes, Church Street, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 083 277
- Coordinates
- 51.0417, -3.30851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bournes is a house, now divided into two, dating from the 16th century with later alterations. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble masonry and features a slate roof with a coped gable on the left side, a hipped roof on the right, and an original large stack on the rear elevation. The building is two storeys high with a gabled three-storey porch and has three bays. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and there are tripartite windows on the ground floor set in slightly raised mortar surrounds from the early 19th century. The door, also from the early 19th century, has a segmental head with a keystone and pilasters.
The right return elevation has similar window features, a glazed porch, and a late 18th-century fanlight. Inside this wing, there is a mid-17th-century plaster ceiling that has been cut at the edges, depicting Venus and Cupid within a triple oval surrounded by roses and fleur de lys, along with the motto "Sine Cerero et Bacchus friget Venus" and geometric bands of shallow moulded decoration. This wing also contains two fireplaces with moulded jambs and wooden moulded lintels. The main block features stop-chamfered beams, a plank and stud partition, a two-centred arched doorway, and a fine four-centre arched door inside.
Local climate
Bournes receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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