West Town House is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. House. 4 related planning applications.
West Town House
- WRENN ID
- winding-buttress-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- West Town House, West Town Road, Backwell, BS48 3BH
- OS grid reference
- ST 481 680
- Coordinates
- 51.40949, -2.74654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Town House is an early 19th-century house located on the south-east side of West Town Road in Backwell. The building is rendered and features a slate roof behind a coped parapet. It has two storeys and is arranged in a 3:1:3 bay configuration, with the outer sections consisting of two-storey bow windows. The windows are glazing bar sash windows. A central six-panel door is set within a late 19th-century projecting porch. To the right, there is a two-storey, two-bay wing.
Local climate
West Town 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- 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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