Dobbins, with Front Boundary Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Dobbins, with Front Boundary Wall and Railings

WRENN ID
low-storey-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 February 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Dobbins, with Front Boundary Wall and Railings, High Ham, TA10 9DR
OS grid reference
ST 433 295
Coordinates
51.06218, -2.80906
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dobbins is a detached cottage dating from the late 18th century, with a late 20th-century extension. It is constructed from local lias stone that is cut and squared, topped with a thatched roof featuring plain gables over the original house. The north extension has a clay partiled roof, while the south extension has a triple roll clay tile roof with a stepped coped gable and a ball finial. There are brick chimney stacks.

The cottage is two storeys high with five bays and irregular fenestration. All but the fifth bay have 12-pane sash windows above, while all but the second bay below have 16-pane sashes. The upper windows feature timber lintels, and the lower bays one and two have voussoired flat arches. Between bays two and three, there is a wide six-flush-panel door with a glazed toplight, set in a late 20th-century timber and glass open porch that has a thatched roof and ornamental bargeboarding.

On the north gable, there is a one-bay extension with boarded garage doors below and a two-light casement window above. The interior has not been seen, but a report mentions a jointed cruck.

Three metres west of the house, there is a lias stone boundary wall about 450mm high, capped by cast iron railings approximately 800mm high. The railings have spearhead points and braced standards, with a matching gate opposite the door, contributing to the setting of the house.

Local climate

Dobbins, with Front Boundary Wall and Railings receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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