Ilex House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Ilex House
- WRENN ID
- worn-transept-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ilex House, West Fitzhead
- OS grid reference
- ST 115 285
- Coordinates
- 51.04985, -3.26319
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ilex House is a house, possibly designed by Richard Carver, built around 1840. It features a rendered exterior over rubble, slate roofs, and decorative pierced bargeboards. The building has paired octagonal brick stacks at the gable ends and four pairs on the garden front, with some being dummies. The structure is arranged in a "U" shape, with gabled outer bays and a recessed center that includes a single-storey porch in an Elizabethan style.
The house is two stories tall and has a layout of 1:3:1 bays. The first floor has three-light mullioned windows, while the ground floor features six-light mullioned and transomed windows. To the right of the central single-storey porch, there is a blocked window. The porch itself has decorative pierced bargeboards and a six-panel door beneath a square hood mould, which is a feature shared by all the windows.
On the garden front, there are five bays with three-light windows on the first floor and eight-light mullioned and transomed windows below, along with a central doorway. The returns are unlit and have blind escutcheons in the gable ends. Ilex House was built for the estate manager of Lord Ashburton.
Local climate
Ilex 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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