The Grey House is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1981. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Grey House

WRENN ID
half-chimney-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1981
Type
House
Address
The Grey House, 49, Nore Road, Portishead, BS20 6JY
OS grid reference
ST 460 766
Coordinates
51.48615, -2.77798
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Grey House is an early to mid-19th century Tudor Gothic building located on the south side of Nore Road, designated as No 49. It is constructed of rubble with freestone dressings and features a tiled roof. The house has two storeys and includes three mullioned windows that are topped with hood moulds and carved stops. The central section of the building is advanced and features a porch and a battlemented oriel window above. This section terminates in a gable with a barge board that has a pierced circular opening within a square surround. The door has a depressed arch with a hood mould above it. To the left, there is a single storey gabled wing.

Local climate

The Grey House receives an average of 860 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 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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