Stalactite Cave Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1984. Cave entrance. 4 related planning applications.
Stalactite Cave Entrance
- WRENN ID
- over-oriel-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1984
- Type
- Cave entrance
- Address
- Stalactite Cave Entrance, Banwell, BS29 6NA
- OS grid reference
- ST 382 587
- Coordinates
- 51.32488, -2.88711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an entrance feature to Stalactite Cave, dating from the early 19th century. The entrance is built of rubble and uncut stone. It features a curving flight of 17 steps leading down between two retaining walls. The steps are accessed between two small piers topped with pyramidal caps. At the mouth of the cave is a round-headed arch set within a retaining wall, which has a rudimentary string course and is surmounted by a pediment, all roughly constructed. It is one of a group of picturesque estate features designed and built by Bishop Law, an antiquarian, on his Banwell estate near Bath and Wells.
Local climate
Stalactite Cave Entrance receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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