Hannah More House is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. House. 7 related planning applications.
Hannah More House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-brass-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hannah More House, Church Street, Blagdon, BS40 7RY
- OS grid reference
- ST 505 587
- Coordinates
- 51.32592, -2.71134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hannah More House is a detached house dating from the 17th century, with restoration work carried out in the 20th century. It is constructed of limewashed rubble with dressed stone openings, some of which have wooden lintels at the rear, and features a 20th-century double Roman tile roof. The building has a U-shaped plan with two rear gabled wings that project from the main south-facing section, which is set at right angles to the road.
The south front is two storeys high and has three windows. The windows feature two, three, and four-light cavetto moulded mullions with hoodmoulds, except for the central two windows on both floors, which have similar 20th-century wooden mullions. All the stone mullions are 20th-century replacements set into the original 17th-century openings. The house has two brick stacks and further three and four-light 17th-century ovolo wooden mullions on the rear gable ends, along with 20th-century wooden mullions and a plank door on the west roadside facade.
Social reformer Hannah More is noted to have used the house as a schoolroom during her time in Wrington from around 1783 to 1833.
Local climate
Hannah More 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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