Tamarisk is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1983. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Tamarisk
- WRENN ID
- drifting-chamber-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tamarisk, 2, the Ball, Dunster, Somerset, TA24 6SD
- OS grid reference
- SS 991 438
- Coordinates
- 51.18518, -3.44451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tamarisk is a late 18th or early 19th century house. It is constructed of colourwashed render, with a half-hipped plain tile roof and a brick chimney stack. The house is two storeys high and has five windows. The first floor windows are 2-light wooden casements with glazing bars, while the ground floor windows are 3-light wooden casements with glazing bars. A central panelled door is sheltered by a later tiled hood supported by brackets. The property is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
Tamarisk sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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