Pople's Well and Attached Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House.
Pople's Well and Attached Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- other-courtyard-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pople's Well and Attached Walls and Railings, Crewkerne
- OS grid reference
- ST 439 098
- Coordinates
- 50.88579, -2.79885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property comprises a late 17th and early 18th century house with attached walls and railings, situated in Crewkerne. The house is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a slate roof featuring stepped stone copings to the gable ends and a stone coping centrally. Brick stacks are located on the outer gables. The original plan was for two units, with a 19th-century wing added to the left.
Architecturally, the house is two storeys with a three-window front. There is a visual separation between the two sections, marked by a stepped stone coping. The earlier section on the right has a steeper roof pitch and a continuous dripmould above the ground-floor windows and door. It features a 4-light casement window and a 3-light window above the door, which itself has two long glazed panels at the top and two raised-and-fielded panels below, possibly originally a 6-panel door, now under a 20th-century hood. A wooden lintel is visible beneath the dripmould on the far right, indicating a former door or window. The left-hand, 18th-century block has higher eaves and a lower ridge, displaying a 4-light casement window to the centre of the first floor and a 3-light window below, both with gauged flat stone arches. All windows have 20th-century glazing, with leaded glass on the first floor and small panes on the ground floor.
Inside, the house features 19th-century panelled doors and shutters. The central hall is stone-flagged, with repurposed panelling. The 19th-century dog-leg staircase is positioned against the former rear wall, dividing the space into left and right sides. The room on the right has an open fireplace with a high, chamfered oak lintel, which may have been raised after its original installation. It also contains an early 18th century chamfered crossbeam, raised-and-fielded panelling below a dado rail, and repositioned 19th-century wooden segmental arches flanking the fireplace. The room on the left has repositioned 19th-century panelling and a fireplace, with all doors having four panels. The 19th-century staircase is located centrally against the former rear wall. The roof structure is largely 19th-century except for a 17th-century plastered truss with daub infill on the left. The attic retains wide elm floorboards and a 19th-century plank screen separating the stairs from the rear wall.
Subsidiary features include spearhead railings with urn finials and double gates, accompanied by a high rubble stone wall attached to the house on the right. This wall returns to the rear on the left after approximately 17 metres, forming a boundary with Victoria Square.
Local climate
Pople's Well and Attached Walls and Railings 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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