Belmont House and Racquets Court is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1984. Country house. 9 related planning applications.

Belmont House and Racquets Court

WRENN ID
dim-gravel-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1984
Type
Country house
Address
Belmont House and Racquets Court, Wraxall and Failand
OS grid reference
ST 512 706
Coordinates
51.43299, -2.70198
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Belmont House and Racquets Court is a small country house built in the late 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The building features rendered brick and stone with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof that is topped with a moulded cornice and blocking course. It stands two storeys high and has a façade with three groups of three bays, where the central three bays are slightly advanced. The windows are glazing bar sash types, with nine panes over twelve on the ground floor. The ground floor windows in the central section are large pane windows from the late 19th or early 20th century, set under fanlights and within round-headed moulded surrounds that include imposts and keystones. These windows are positioned between Tuscan columns in antis, topped with a plain entablature and cornice. The central entrance features a panelled door.

On the south-east elevation, there are seven bays, with the outer two bays advanced and featuring tripartite windows and projecting square bay windows. The central five windows are separated by pilasters, and there is a central door beneath a flat hood supported by brackets. Inside the house, there is a late 19th-century private racquets court, which is supported by cast-iron roof trusses.

Local climate

Belmont House and Racquets Court receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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