The Oake House the Old Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Oake House the Old Court House
- WRENN ID
- grim-zinc-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Oake House the Old Court House, 7, Silver Street, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 081 278
- Coordinates
- 51.0429, -3.31194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Oake House and The Old Court House is a house that has been divided, dating from the mid-19th century and possibly incorporating earlier elements. The main front is completely covered with West Somerset slates, while the left side features random rubble masonry and the right side has rough cast. The building has a gabled roof with Welsh slates on No 7 and Bridgwater Patents on No 9.
The three-gabled facade shows No 7 on the left and the L-shaped block of No 9 on the right. The house is two storeys high with a layout of two bays, two bays, and two bays. No 7 has irregularly placed windows, with 20th-century casements and a door, along with 19th-century wooden casements on the ground floor, sash windows with glazing bars above, and a glazed door with sidelights to the left of centre. The gables of the casement windows on the first floor of the right-hand return elevation extend above the eaves. There is a gabled porch at the angle of the right-hand return elevation, featuring 19th-century carved bosses. Inside, there is late 19th-century panelling in the front room to the right, which may include some 17th-century woodwork in the overmantle.
Local climate
The Oake House the Old Court House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- 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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