Caisson House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. A C19 House. 4 related planning applications.
Caisson House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-entrance-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Caisson House, Course of Disused Somerset Coal Canal, Combe Hay, BA2 7EF
- OS grid reference
- ST 741 603
- Coordinates
- 51.34163, -2.37302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Caisson House is a house, likely dating from the 1830s, probably built for the Somerset Coal Canal Company. It may represent a remodelling of earlier cottages. The house is constructed of ashlar and has a 20th-century tiled roof concealed behind a parapet, which features pierced triangular cresting and a moulded cornice. It is two storeys high and consists of nine bays, with pilaster strips rising through the parapet as pedestals at the ends and between bays 2 and 3, 4 and 5, 5 and 6, and 7 and 8. The windows are glazing bar sash windows set within raised panel surrounds, with canted bay windows in bays 3 and 7. A central door is located within a projecting ashlar porch, which has a moulded surround and cornice. The house is named for its proximity to the site of a caisson lock from the 1790s; this lock was the initial and innovative means of achieving the change in level on this branch of the canal.
Local climate
Caisson House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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- Flight of 10 Locks,To North and South of Caisson House
- Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal
- The Wheatsheaf
- The Old Rectory
- Barn to East of Parish Church
- Monument to William Sabin, in Churchyard to North of Parish Church
- Monument to William White,In Churchyard to North of Parish Church
- Monument to Jane Saben, in Churchyard to North of Parish Church
- Unidentified Monument,To South East of Saben Monument in Churchyard to North of Parish Church
- Monument to Saben Family in Churchyard to North of Parish Church