Somerton is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1973. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Somerton
- WRENN ID
- seventh-obsidian-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1973
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Somerton, Elysian Fields, Sidmouth, EX10 8UH
- OS grid reference
- SY 124 879
- Coordinates
- 50.68487, -3.24016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elysian Fields in Somerton is a roughcast villa built around 1830-1840, featuring two storeys and some later alterations. It has a low-pitched hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves.
The east garden front is symmetrical and has three windows. The first floor includes low French Gothic windows with intersecting glazing bars at the heads. Each window has a wooden balcony with diamond panels; the central balcony is wider and has a rail that sweeps up to supports reaching the eaves. The outer ground floor windows are canted tent roof bays with four lights, two facing the front and pointed top panes. The left bay has a small terrace beside it with a diamond pattern iron balustrade. The central French Gothic window features a large tympanum with intersecting glazing bars, and the centre pane is hinged.
On the north side, the entrance has three first-floor windows, with a central Gothic casement and two altered windows. The ground floor has been built out with a slate roof, featuring two later tripartite windows and a central door with six flush panels.
Somerton is part of a group of early to mid-19th century villas located in a particularly fine setting on a residential cul-de-sac in the upper part of the town.
Local climate
Somerton receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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