Boss House and Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Boss House and Front Boundary Railings
- WRENN ID
- little-cloister-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Boss House and Front Boundary Railings, Church Street, Ilchester, BA22 8LH
- OS grid reference
- ST 522 225
- Coordinates
- 51.00065, -2.68196
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boss House is a corner cottage located on Church Street, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from local lias coursed rubble with ham stone quoins and features a double Roman clay tiled roof with a stepped coped south gable and a brick chimney stack. The building is two storeys high with three bays and irregular fenestration. The upper level has small-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows, while the lower level includes horizontal-bar casements with three, four, and three lights under timber lintels. Between the second and third bays, there is a 19th-century part-glazed door set in a recess with a plain timber architrave.
There is a later return along Limington Road, which has a Welsh slate roof and four bays with later 19th-century windows in segmental-arched brick surrounds. The interior has not been seen. Approximately one metre west of the house, there are boundary railings featuring collared spearpoints set on a low stone base, with cast iron finials on the standards and a matching gate opposite the door. These railings enhance the setting of the house and the streetscape. The building was shown on earlier Ordnance Survey maps as the Cow Inn, which had been opened by 1859.
Local climate
Boss House and Front Boundary Railings receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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