North Coker House

North Coker House is a large house dating to the late 19th century, though with what appear to be earlier wings and outbuildings. It is constructed of Ham stone ashlar with stone dressings, and has a plain clay tile roof with coped gables and ornamental stone chimney stacks. The architectural style is largely late medieval in character. The north elevation features five bays and is two storeys high with attics. Most windows are hollow-chamfered and mullioned. Bay 1 includes full-height corner buttresses and 2-light windows; bays 2 and 3 incorporate gabled dormers. A projecting, flat-roofed porch sits in bay 3, featuring a cambered arched doorway with deeply hollowed spandrels. Bay 4 has windows of a 14th-century type with traceried pointed arches on both levels. Bay 5 has an octagonal oriel bay with ornamental gablets. The windows generally have simple sash glazing, apart from diamond-leaded panes in bay 4. An ornamental oriel window is present on the west elevation. The interior was not inspected. The house was built, or rebuilt, for A. Troyte-Bullock, a major landowner in North Coker, in the later 19th century. A kitchen wing on the east side incorporates datestones dated 1724 and 1727, which may not be genuine.