List of English Heritage Properties

Somerset

Name	Type	Date	Condition	Notes
Cleeve Abbey	Abbey	1198	Parts survive	Located near the village of Washford, Cleeve Abbey was founded as a house for monks of the Cistercian order. It was closed in 1536 and the abbey was converted into a country house.
Dunster Butter Cross	Standing cross	15th century	Ruined	A transplanted stump of a medieval stone cross, once a meeting place for butter-sellers.
Dunster Gallox Bridge	Bridge	15th century	Complete	An ancient stone bridge which once carried packhorses bringing fleeces to Dunster market.
Dunster Yarn Market	Market hall	17th century	Complete	A 17th century timber-framed octagonal market hall in the village of Dunster.
Farleigh Hungerford Castle	Castle	14th century	Ruined	Started in the 14th century, this fortified mansion was occupied for 300 years by the Hungerford family. Much of it was broken up for salvage in the 18th century. The castle chapel was repaired in 1779 and became a museum of curiosities, complete with the murals rediscovered on its walls in 1844.
Glastonbury Tribunal‎	Town house	15th century	Complete	A late 15th century town house, once mistakenly identified as a courtroom of Glastonbury Abbey. It now houses both the Tourist Information Centre and the Glastonbury Lake Village Museum.
Meare Fish House‎	Fish house	14th century	Complete	The only surviving monastic fishery building in England, this housed the Abbot of Glastonbury's water bailiff and provided facilities for fish-salting and drying.
Muchelney Abbey	Abbey	12th century	Ruined	Once a wealthy Benedictine house and the second oldest religious foundation in Somerset, but as part of the dissolution the abbey’s principal buildings were demolished by Henry VIII in 1538. The foundations of the abbey are laid out with parts of the cloister walk and thatched monks’ lavatory. The 16th century abbots’ house remains intact.
Nunney Castle	Castle	14th century	Ruined	A moated castle built in the 1370s. Extensively modernised in the late 16th century, the castle was held for the King during the Civil War, but quickly fell to Parliamentarian cannon in 1645: not until Christmas Day 1910, however, did the gun-damaged portion of the wall finally collapse.
Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument	Monument	1720	Complete	Erected on Lansdowne Hill, Bath, to commemorate the heroism of Sir Bevil Grenville and his Cornish pikemen at the Battle of Lansdowne in 1643,
Stanton Drew Circles and Cove	Henge	Neolithic	Parts survive	The three circles and a stone cove near the village of Stanton Drew, are the third largest collection of prehistoric standing stones in England. The Great Circle probably consisted of 30 stones, of which 27 survive today, and was surrounded by the ditch (now filled in) of a henge. It lies between two smaller circles, whilst to the west is a cove of three stones standing in the garden of a public house.
Stoney Littleton Long Barrow	Tumulus	Neolithic	Mostly complete	A Neolithic chambered tomb with multiple burial chambers, located near the village of Wellow, Somerset. It is an example of the Severn-Cotswold tomb. The barrow is about 30m in length and stands nearly 3m high. Internally it contains a gallery with three pairs of side chambers and an end chamber.