Gauge House is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1987. House.
Gauge House
- WRENN ID
- dusk-bastion-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gauge House, Burrington
- OS grid reference
- ST 486 593
- Coordinates
- 51.33058, -2.73823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gauge House is a late 19th-century building located in Rickford, Blagdon. It features a wooden raft supported by cast iron stanchions over a brook. The structure is made of rockfaced coursed red sandstone with green sandstone dressings set on a limestone plinth. It has a timber frame outer skin on brick with roughcast infill and a plain tile roof, designed in a Swiss chalet style. The building is square in plan with a pyramidal roof and an open apex turret topped with a weathervane. Each face has window and door openings that develop into gabled dormers, with plank doors that have fine ironwork hinges. There is a retaining wall along the roadside made of rockfaced squared sandstone with ashlar coping, piers, and wrought iron railings. The Gauge House makes an important visual contribution to the streetscape alongside the Masonic Lodge and Mill House.
Local climate
Gauge House 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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