Picnic House is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1981. House. 2 related planning applications.
Picnic House
- WRENN ID
- woven-steel-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Picnic House, Hanham Mills Road, Hanham Abbots, BS15 3NU
- OS grid reference
- ST 646 701
- Coordinates
- 51.42907, -2.50923
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Picnic House is a three-storey building constructed in 1726 as part of the Avon Navigation Scheme. The exterior is rendered with a pantile roof featuring brick end chimneys and modern coped verges. It has five windows with glazing bar sashes set in flush frames, although the ground floor windows have been altered with cambered heads. There are plain weathered strings above the first and ground floors, with the latter raised over the window heads. The central entrance features a half-glazed door with a transom light and a gabled lattice porch. At the rear, there is a stair turret. Flanking the doorway are two obscured freestone tablets inscribed with "CWS" and "1726". Inside, there is some residual panelling in the ground floor rooms and in the cupboard beneath the stairs. The staircase has splat balusters, which have been replaced on the ground and first floors.
Local climate
Picnic House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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