Bagborough House is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Bagborough House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-finial-sparrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Bagborough House, West Bagborough
- OS grid reference
- ST 168 337
- Coordinates
- 51.09657, -3.18844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bagborough House is a country house built around 1730, with enlargements made around 1820 and again around 1900. The exterior features rendered grooved ashlar and hipped slate roofs behind parapets, with rendered stacks. Originally, the entrance was on the five-bay south front but was reoriented to the east front in the 1820s, when three additional bays were likely added, extending it to four bays. There is a lower block that is more independently roofed, which contains a billiard room.
The entrance front has a layout of five bays, one bay, two bays, and four bays, featuring 12-pane sash windows in moulded surrounds with pediments above the third left and third right windows on the first floor of the main block. The ground floor has the right two bays containing a three-light sash window with marginal glazing bars, set in a Ham stone ashlar surround that projects slightly forward and is supported by console brackets. A moulded dentil cornice below the parapet breaks into a pediment above the entrance bay, which continues on the left return. There is a moulded cornice on the lower block to the right.
The main entrance is located in the sixth bay from the left and features an Ionic porch with paired columns and a coat of arms in a square panel supported by an entablature. The double doors are partially glazed. The entrance to the billiard room block is in the inner bay to the left, featuring a pedimented doorcase with a 12-pane glazed door. The south front is distinguished by a five-bay Ionic colonnade of paired columns, with the centre bay breaking forward slightly.
Inside, there is fine decoration from around 1730 in the style of William Kent in the salon on the south front. The 18th-century cantilevered circular stair has twisted newels and a moulded dado. The plasterwork in the dining room is likely from the 1890s, and there is imported 16th-century panelling in the billiard room.
Local climate
Bagborough 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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