Yarn Market is a Grade I listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. A Post-Medieval Market. 5 related planning applications.
Yarn Market
- WRENN ID
- waiting-flue-heron
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Market
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Yarn Market, High Street, Dunster, Somerset, TA24 6SG
- OS grid reference
- SS 991 438
- Coordinates
- 51.18461, -3.44432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Yarn Market, built in 1609 and repaired in 1647 before a later restoration, is an octagonal structure. It features a massive central stone pier supporting a heavy timber framework that rests on a low rubble stone wall. The timber framework supports a slate roof with a central wooden lantern, topped by a weather vane engraved with the initials 'GL' and the date 1647. Eight gabled dormers are present, each containing three-light leaded wood casement windows with moulded wood mullions. The building is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 32).
Local climate
Yarn Market 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 2010
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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