No 59 The Abbey House, Forecourt Walls, Gate Piers, and Lamp Overthrow is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. House.
No 59 The Abbey House, Forecourt Walls, Gate Piers, and Lamp Overthrow
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-thatch-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- No 59 The Abbey House, Forecourt Walls, Gate Piers, and Lamp Overthrow, Goose Street, Beckington
- OS grid reference
- ST 803 520
- Coordinates
- 51.26729, -2.28312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 59 The Abbey House is a house that dates back to the 16th century, was rebuilt in the 17th century, and has 19th-century additions. It features a rendered exterior and a double-Roman tile roof with two coped gables at the front, each with bases for finials. There are three stacks, two made of rendered brick and one made of stone with a moulded cap. The facade is symmetrically arranged and has two storeys and an attic, with three bays. The windows include two and four-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows under stopped labels, and a single light opening in a similar surround at the centre of the first floor. To the left side of the ground floor is a cambered ashlar bay window with a flat roof, and the door opening is nearly central in a plain stone surround, topped with an edge-moulded slab stone hood supported by shaped stone brackets, leading to a six-panelled door.
To the left, there is a two-storey outshut that is set back, featuring a large sash window with glazing bars on the first floor and a smaller four-light window on the ground floor. To the right is a single-storey outshut with a 20th-century flat roof and casements. Inside, the room to the right on the ground floor has a four-panelled moulded framed ceiling, a fireplace in a four-centred stone surround, and a shell-headed niche with shaped wooden shelves. There are also winder stairs and two additional fireplaces in four-centred stone surrounds on the first floor.
The forecourt is enclosed by a rubble wall with dressed stone coping, and there are central ashlar gate piers with moulded caps. A wrought iron lamp overthrow with a lamp and pegged oak latticework gates complete the entrance.
Local climate
No 59 The Abbey House, Forecourt Walls, Gate Piers, and Lamp Overthrow 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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