Egford House, Gate, Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. House.
Egford House, Gate, Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall
- WRENN ID
- vacant-lead-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Egford House, Gate, Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall, Whatley
- OS grid reference
- ST 754 481
- Coordinates
- 51.23228, -2.35324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Egford House, along with its gate, gate piers, and forecourt wall, is a house dating from around 1800, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed from coursed and dressed Doulting rubble and features a moulded eaves cornice, wide eaves, and a slate roof that is gabled to the right and hipped to the left, with dressed stone stacks. The facade is symmetrical and has an "L" plan, standing two storeys high with three bays. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor features later sash windows with marginal lights.
At the center of the facade is an ashlar porch with a moulded cornice and a blocking course. The window openings on the front and left side are ogee headed, and there is a door opening to the right with a half-glazed door. Inside, there is a six-panelled inner door with fielded panels. The right return of the building has three bays and a semi-circular headed opening with a keystone at the center of the first floor. There is a wing of lower height at the rear.
To the left side of the facade, a squared and coursed Doulting rubble wall with flat coping extends, featuring central ashlar gate piers with pyramidal cappings and a wrought iron gate. The wall continues for 52 meters to the right, enclosing the garden.
Local climate
Egford House, Gate, Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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