Bowlish House is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1952. House.
Bowlish House
- WRENN ID
- vast-solder-hawthorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bowlish House, Coombe Lane, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 612 439
- Coordinates
- 51.19352, -2.5558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowlish House is a house dated 1732, featuring a rendered exterior with an ashlar plinth and a hipped slate roof. The building is designed in a Palladian style with a "U"-plan layout. It has two storeys and an attic, comprising seven bays with narrow sash windows that have glazing bars, all set within moulded stone architraves. Each window has a pulvinated frieze and a triangular pediment, except for the third and fifth bays which have segmental pediments.
The central door opening is framed by a stone doorcase with a triangular pediment supported by three-quarter Tuscan columns. The entrance is accessed by five stone steps. The building features corner pilasters, a modillion cornice, and three flat-headed dormers on the roof. There are two ornamental lead rainwater heads dated "1732". Inside, the ground floor rooms are adorned with panelling, and there is a dog-leg staircase with turned and twisted balusters, a ramped moulded handrail, and foliated tread brackets.
Local climate
Bowlish House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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