Coombe House and Gate Piers of Forecourt Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1961. House. 2 related planning applications.
Coombe House and Gate Piers of Forecourt Walls
- WRENN ID
- inner-casement-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Coombe House and Gate Piers of Forecourt Walls, High Street, Ashwick, BA3 5AL
- OS grid reference
- ST 634 473
- Coordinates
- 51.224, -2.52416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coombe House is a late 17th-century house situated on the north side of High Street in Ashwick. It has a "U" shape and a symmetrical facade. The house is built with roughcast render and has a slate roof, with late 19th-century brick end stacks. The front has two storeys and five bays arranged in a 1:3:1 pattern. Stone mullion and transom windows of two lights are present, with late 19th-century sash windows on the ground floor set within moulded architraves, and with moulded cornices above. The central doorway features a bolection architrave, and contains a pair of mid-19th century panelled doors beneath a flat wooden hood supported by thin iron brackets. Ashlar gate piers with capstones border the forecourt.
Local climate
Coombe House and Gate Piers of Forecourt Walls 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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