West House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
West House
- WRENN ID
- sacred-pediment-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- West House, 41, East Quantoxhead, TA5 1EJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 139 433
- Coordinates
- 51.18274, -3.23308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West House, formerly known as The Rectory, is a house built between 1806 and 1810 on the site of a 17th-century parsonage. It was altered and extended around 1840 and features a late 19th-century verandah designed by architect George Sale of Dunster. The building is constructed of roughcast over random rubble with a tiled roof adorned with decorative ridge tiles and a trick stack on the right.
The house has a double pile service plan with an addition at the rear. It is two stories high with four bays, featuring 16-pane sash windows. The entrance is located in the outer bay on the right, with a fanlight that has divider tracery above a six-panel door with panelled reveals. The five-bay verandah has a hipped tiled roof supported by paired turned columns with decorative spandrels and fretwork balusters set on a plinth, accessible by a flight of six steps at the end bay on the right. There is a two-bay right return and a canted bay on the left return. Inside, there is an early 19th-century staircase.
Local climate
West House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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