Stowell Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Country house. 3 related planning applications.
Stowell Hill House
- WRENN ID
- blind-lantern-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Stowell Hill House, Horsington, BA8 0DF
- OS grid reference
- ST 689 229
- Coordinates
- 51.00472, -2.4446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stowell Hill House is a country house built in 1923/24, with a later extension, designed by Sir Guy Dawber for Mr. McCreery. The house is constructed of local stone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a hipped roof covered in plain clay tiles and tapered chimney stacks with ashlar copings. It is an example of Arts and Crafts style architecture.
The house is arranged with an "H" plan and has a random arrangement of windows on the north front. Small-pane casement windows are set within rubble quoins, with bracketted eaves. A two-storey porch, slightly projecting from the centre of the north front, has a flat roof behind stepped coping and contains a pair of flush oak doors within an architrave, topped with a flat stone hood supported by corbel brackets. Above the doors is a full-length window within a stylised ashlar surround, complete with a wrought iron balcony. The south rear elevation has a 2+2+2 bay arrangement, with central French doors set within an architraved surround and a segmental pediment. To the east end is a projecting, flat-roofed open loggia, followed by a masking wing wall. The other elevations display similar character.
The interior retains a high level of detail with very few alterations to the original design. The garden has been fully landscaped in a style appropriate to the period. A date plaque is visible on the west elevation.
Local climate
Stowell Hill House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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