Fountain House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Fountain House
- WRENN ID
- keen-grate-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fountain House, High Ham, TA10 9DB
- OS grid reference
- ST 425 315
- Coordinates
- 51.08052, -2.82086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fountain House is a detached cottage with origins in the 16th century, significantly altered in the early 20th century. It is constructed of roughly cut and squared local lias stone with a triple roll clay tiled roof and brick chimney stacks that have traditional baffle tops. The cottage is two storeys high and has three bays. It features metal casement windows with leaded lights, with three-light windows on the ground floor and two-light windows in small, pitched roofed dormers above. A 20th-century boarded door is set within a tiled open porch bay, and there is a more recent single-storey extension to the north gable.
Inside, the room on the left has a 4-panelled chamfered beam ceiling and a modified gable fireplace. The room on the right has transverse beams with run-out stops, and a north gable fireplace incorporating a brick oven. The roof structure features collar beam trusses.
Local climate
Fountain House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 7 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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