Abbey House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. House.
Abbey House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-jade-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey House, Abbey Street, Crewkerne
- OS grid reference
- ST 439 098
- Coordinates
- 50.88535, -2.79871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey House is a mid-19th century house located on the site of a former Clergy House in Crewkerne. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with Ham Hill stone quoins, a plinth, and dressings, topped with a slate roof featuring stepped stone coping and stone stacks. The building has a double-depth plan with a service wing to the right and is designed in the Tudor-Revival style.
The house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window range. It features two forward-facing shouldered gables with moulded kneelers, and between them is a corbelled-out oriel window on the first floor, which showcases dagger tracery and a moulded, castellated cornice. Below this window is a diagonally planked and studded door, flanked by single-light, deeply recessed, narrow windows. The other casement windows have label moulds and horizontal glazing bars, with single-light windows in the attics and two-light, 19th-century cross-windows below.
To the right of the main structure is a single-storey gabled wing that contains one tall narrow window. Additionally, a 15th-century stone-mullioned window with leaded lights, originally from the former Chantry House on the site, has been repositioned as a stair-window at the rear. This window features a tall label mould over two lights with cinquefoil heads, and below the label mould are four small trefoil-headed lights. The interior has not been accessed, but it is noted to have 19th-century features.
Local climate
Abbey House 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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