Swell House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1963. Farmhouse.

Swell House

WRENN ID
little-buttress-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 March 1963
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Swell House, Main Road, West Huntspill
OS grid reference
ST 309 455
Coordinates
51.20493, -2.99041
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Swell House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 17th to early 18th century. It features a rendered and colourwashed exterior with a brick and rubble core, topped by a triple-Roman tile roof. The building has brick stacks and double-curved Flemish end gables with stone copings, kneelers, and ball finials.

The symmetrical frontage is two storeys high with a layout of one bay, three bays, and one bay. The central three bays project forward beneath a stone triangular pediment, which has a small Venetian window in its tympanum. The façade includes alternating stone quoins, a cornice, and a parapet on the side units. The sash windows have glazing bars, with keyed plain openings on the side units and keyed moulded stone architraves on the central unit, which features single-hung sashes. French windows are located on each side of the ground floor.

The entrance has a central architrave door opening with a stone slab hood supported by enriched brackets, and there is a 20th-century panelled door. Above the door, there is a painted sundial on a wooden panel set in a moulded stone frame. The rear elevation has been significantly altered in the late 20th century, including changes to casements and doors. There is also a single-storey outshut to the right of the frontage.

Local climate

Swell House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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