The Surgery is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Surgery

WRENN ID
dim-lancet-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1961
Type
House
Address
The Surgery, 1, West Street, South Petherton, TA13 5DQ
OS grid reference
ST 431 168
Coordinates
50.94824, -2.81007
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an earlier 18th-century house on a corner site, with later 18th and 19th-century modifications. It is constructed of roughly cut and squared ham stone, with ashlar dressings. The roof is of undulating plain clay tile, between high stepped coped gables that indicate a former thatched appearance. Brick end stack chimneys are also present. The house is two storeys high with attics, and has four bays. A band course runs above the lower windows. The windows are casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, with 4-light windows in the outer bays and 3-light windows on the upper floors. These windows have rusticated voussoirs and keystoned heads. An 8-panel door, with the four upper panels glazed, sits in a deep panelled recess, featuring a timber architrave and an open pediment of uncertain date. The east gable has 12-pane sash windows in simple stone architraves on each level, including in the attic, with the first-floor window having thicker glazing bars. A rear extension, likely from the late 18th century, has irregular and varied window openings. The ground floor of the extension features a 3-light mullioned window in a simple architrave, while three windows are present on the first floor and an attic dormer window is visible. The south gable contains a 19th-century door and a first-floor casement window, along with a 12-pane sash window in a beaded stone surround in the attic. The interior of the house has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Surgery receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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