Woodlands House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. A Georgian House. 2 related planning applications.

Woodlands House

WRENN ID
rusted-alcove-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1969
Type
House
Address
Woodlands House, Holford, TA5 1SE
OS grid reference
ST 161 407
Coordinates
51.1594, -3.20075
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodlands House is a house built around 1790, with an enlargement in the early 19th century. It features roughcast over brick, a hipped slate roof, and a modillion cornice, along with brick stacks topped with twisted chimney pots. The house has a double pile design with semi-circular bow wings. It stands two storeys high and has three bays, with 12-pane sash windows that have wooden trellis surrounds. The entrance includes a central pedimented pilaster door case with half-glazed double doors and sidelights. The right side of the house has a three-bay arrangement of 12-pane sash windows and segmental-headed tripartite sash windows, along with two-light casements at the bottom left. There is a full-height three-window semi-circular bow addition on the right. This house was the residence of John Kenyon, a poet and philanthropist known for introducing Robert Browning to his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett.

Local climate

Woodlands House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 2026
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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