The Close is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Close
- WRENN ID
- idle-corbel-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Close, 2, North Street, Martock, TA12 6DH
- OS grid reference
- ST 462 194
- Coordinates
- 50.97162, -2.76681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Close is a detached house located at No. 2 North Street, with origins dating back to the 17th century. It was extended and likely remodeled in the 19th century. The building is constructed of ham stone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with stepped coped gables and stone chimney stacks.
It has two storeys and two bays, with hollow chamfered mullioned windows of three lights under shared labels on both levels. Between the bays, there is a boarded and studded door set in a cambered archway. To the north, there is a single bay extension with a hipped Welsh slate roof, which includes a flat-roofed two-storey angled bay window with sash windows, margined on the front face.
The return elevation on the north side has three bays, with mullioned windows that match those on the front, featuring common labels for the first and second bays at both levels, and a separate upper bay for the third. The lower bay three has a door in a plain semi-circular arched recess with a keystone. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Close receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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 2018
- 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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