Somerset House is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1986. House. 5 related planning applications.
Somerset House
- WRENN ID
- mired-steeple-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Somerset House, High Street, Yatton, BS49 4DB
- OS grid reference
- ST 426 660
- Coordinates
- 51.39054, -2.82559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Somerset House is a house located on the south side of High Street in Yatton, dating from the early 19th century, with a rear wing added in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of rubble, with the front block rendered and brick dressings on the rear wing. It features a slate roof with decorative crestings and brick gable stacks.
The house is two storeys high and has three windows, all of which are 16-pane sashes set in exposed boxes. The central entrance includes a panelled and glazed door with a fanlight that has radial glazing bars, all set within a round-headed opening. The porch is adorned with decorative cast iron panels at the front, wood trellis on the sides, and a segmental hood supported by radial struts at the front.
On the right side of the house, there is a single light window at ground floor level on the left, and a small two-light casement window with glazing bars in the attic. The left side features an attached greenhouse and a plate-glass sash window with a segmental head at first floor level on the left, along with a 20th-century two-light casement window in the attic.
At the rear, there is a 20th-century plate-glass window at ground floor level on the left, above which is a sash window with a wider central pane. The two-storey rear wing is built of random rubble and has an asbestos slate roof that is hipped at one end. This wing includes three doors, with the right and left doors having brick segmental heads, and a single 20th-century light. The first floor features sashes with wider central panes, each with a brick surround and segmental head, including one on the right and two on the left side. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Somerset House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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