The Corner House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. A C18 Shop, house. 2 related planning applications.
The Corner House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-plinth-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- The Corner House, the Square, Axbridge, BS26 2AP
- OS grid reference
- ST 430 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28725, -2.81777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Corner House is a late 18th-century shop and house, with alterations made in the 20th century. It has a rendered facade topped with a pyramidal pantile roof and a brick stack. The building’s prominent feature is its splayed angle where the elevations face The Square and The High Street.
The building is three storeys high. The elevation to The Square is a single bay with flush-mounted 16-pane sash windows. The ground floor has an 8-light shop window with leaded lights. The elevation to the High Street is two bays, with 16-pane flush-mounted sash windows to the right bay and 2-light transomed casements to the left. The ground floor of this elevation also includes a 4-light shop window with leaded lights and a 20th-century glazed door with sidelights and a transom light.
The main entrance is located in the splayed angle between the elevations, and consists of paired half-glazed doors with a transom light. A further door opening provides access to The Corner House from the ground floor of the adjacent Lamb Inn.
Local climate
The Corner House 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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