Sycamores is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Sycamores
- WRENN ID
- quiet-roof-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sycamores, New Street, Somerton, TA11 7NT
- OS grid reference
- ST 491 286
- Coordinates
- 51.05518, -2.72642
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sycamores is a late 18th-century house that is part of a row and has been divided. It is constructed from local lias stone that has been cut and squared, and it features an undulating plain tile roof with coped gables and a brick chimney stack at one end. The house has two storeys and three bays, with sash windows consisting of 16 panes set in plain openings that have dovetailed stone lintels. The entrance doors, located to the left of the first bay and in the second bay, are of a 20th-century boarded pattern. Attached to the east gable is a single-storey outhouse that has a double Roman clay tile roof and an elliptical arched doorway with a keystone. The interiors have not been seen. The building has good group value in an attractive old street.
Local climate
Sycamores 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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