Bubspool House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1955. House.

Bubspool House

WRENN ID
quartered-belfry-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1955
Type
House
Address
Bubspool House, East Coker
OS grid reference
ST 542 121
Coordinates
50.90719, -2.65151
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bubspool House is a house with origins in the 15th century and later work from the 16th, 17th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed from Ham stone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and stone end chimney stacks. The main block has a double roof plan and a south extension that is set back. The building is two storeys high with a four-bay main west facade.

In the first bay, there are a pair of 12-paned sash windows below and 6-pane windows above. The second bay features a cambered arched entrance doorway flanked by small single-light windows, above which is a 3-light hollow chamfered window without a label. The third bay has a similar window on the ground floor only. The fourth bay contains a 4-light window below and a 3-light window above, both without labels.

The set-back six-bay extension is mostly from the 19th century and includes mullioned windows in the first two bays, with sash and casement windows elsewhere. Inside, there is a 17th-century staircase in the central wing, and a former external single-cusped light window beneath a square block. There is also a mutilated 15th-century doorway on the first floor with head stops to the label, along with some panelling in the entrance hall and one room above dating from around 1600. The west half of the main block has a somewhat restored close coupled roof, while the east block is from the 19th century. The south range features a stone newel stair and part of a 15th-century roof structure, as well as a segmental arched wood lintel over the dining room fireplace and several stop-chamfered ceiling beams.

Local climate

Bubspool House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 66% 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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