Harford House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Harford House
- WRENN ID
- salt-tallow-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Harford House, Harford Square, Chew Magna, BS40 8RA
- OS grid reference
- ST 575 631
- Coordinates
- 51.36616, -2.61156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harford House is a house built in 1817 for Mary Harford, with additions dating to the late 19th century and some 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of coursed sandstone freestone with white pointing, limestone dressings, and a triple Roman tiled mansard roof featuring ridge and gable stacks (currently missing to the left). The sides and rear of the house are rendered, while a 19th-century wing has a plain tiled roof and the rear has black pantiles.
The house has two storeys and five windows. All windows have plain reveals, white voussoirs, and projecting keystones. The ground floor features four plate-glass sash windows, while the first floor has sashes. A central entrance has a six-panelled door topped with a decorative fanlight, pilasters, and an open pediment. Further details include a plinth, limestone cornice, a parapet with coping, a parapet ramped up at the sides and returns to the stacks, two double dormers, and a central single dormer.
The right return has a cellar door to the left and external steps leading to 20th-century glass doors on the ground floor. Two 20th-century two-light casements are located at attic level. The rear features a two-storey late 19th-century wing with a bow window at the corner, a five-light window on both the ground and first floors. To the right of this wing are two doors with a continuous flat hood. The first floor to the right has two six-pane lights, and another two six-pane lights are in the gable end. A central two-storey bow has a tall round-headed window (likely a stair light) and a two-light casement on the first floor. Below is a single-storey addition with two four-pane lights; another single-storey addition includes a door to the right and a four-pane sash. The rear of the main house to the right has a sash window on both the ground and first floor, with a wrought-iron window box on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Harford House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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