Fromeshaw Lake House and Adjoining Courtyard Walk, Garden Terrace and Grotto is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Fromeshaw Lake House and Adjoining Courtyard Walk, Garden Terrace and Grotto
- WRENN ID
- guardian-wall-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke MP: Claire Hazelgrove (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fromeshaw Lake House and Adjoining Courtyard Walk, Garden Terrace and Grotto, BS16 1NU
- OS grid reference
- ST 641 779
- Coordinates
- 51.4994, -2.51713
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century house, now divided into two separate residences. The main block is three storeys high with three windows, accompanied by single-storey wings that project forward and each have two windows. The front features a central, 20th-century glazed porch with modern doors, flanked by tripartite sash windows with glazing bars and pilasters. The first floor has 16 and 9-pane glazing bar sashes beneath cornices, while the second floor has only two glazing bar sashes, also under cornices supported by corbels. The wings have large pediments rising above the parapets, each framing a pair of glazing bar sashes divided by pilasters and set within a large segmental arched recess, featuring a frieze.
The rear elevation of the main block is two-and-a-half storeys high with two windows beneath full gables. These windows are three-light mullioned casements with multiple panes, set beneath exaggerated labels. The ground floor features similar, larger French doors. The wings on the rear echo the front with two-storey, similarly styled windows.
To the left of the house is a large courtyard wall with an arched opening containing a keystone. A second, double wall has smaller openings leading to cellar-like rooms and through to the garden. A terrace sits above these walls, leading to a small doorway made of unworked stone which gives access to a garden room with a curved wall decorated with shells and fossils. A 20th-century pitched roof currently covers what was formerly a dome.
Local climate
Fromeshaw Lake House and Adjoining Courtyard Walk, Garden Terrace and Grotto receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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