Combe Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1984. Country villa. 5 related planning applications.

Combe Hill House

WRENN ID
over-cornice-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 August 1984
Type
Country villa
Address
Combe Hill House, Brassknocker Hill, Monkton Combe, BA2 7HU
OS grid reference
ST 779 626
Coordinates
51.36246, -2.31755
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Combe Hill House is a Gothick country villa dating to the late 18th century. It is built of ashlar stone with slate roofs hidden behind an embattled parapet, and has ashlar stacks. The house has an irregular plan, with a curved east elevation, and sits upon a raised plinth above a cellar.

The three-bay south elevation is dominated by a full-height canted bay to the right, featuring three windows with glazing bars; the first-floor windows are sashes, and the centre ground-floor window has a Gothick fanlight. A single-bay section is set back to the right of the projecting bay, with a French window on the ground floor and a glazing bar sash window above. To the left is the recessed entrance front of two bays, with glazing bar sash windows and a panelled door to the right, topped by a pediment supported on brackets; a small gable, marking the end of a rear wing, breaks through the parapet.

The east elevation begins at the south with a full-height segmental bow of three glazing bar sash windows. The remainder of the east elevation is set on an inward radius, forming a concave plan, with five windows on the ground floor and three on the first, all glazing bar sashes. The centre windows of the bow and of the main front have round heads and Gothick glazing, a cill band runs under the first floor, and a moulded cornice sits above.

Local climate

Combe Hill House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% 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 2011
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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