The Old Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. House.
The Old Manse
- WRENN ID
- ragged-mullion-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Manse, New Street, Somerton
- OS grid reference
- ST 491 286
- Coordinates
- 51.05497, -2.72672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Manse is an 18th-century house located at the end of a row on New Street in Somerton. It is constructed from local lias stone ashlar with painted Ham stone dressings and features a clay pantiled roof that is set behind a plain parapet between coped gables. The building has brick and stone chimney stacks at either end.
The house is two storeys high and has three bays. It includes a plinth, cornice moulding, and pilaster panels only at the parapet. The windows are 12-pane casements set in keystoned architraved surrounds. In the lower bay three, there is a six-panel door with glazed toplights, also in a keystoned architraved surround, which is topped by a moulded flat stone hood supported by console brackets. There is a return wing at the rear that is set lower than the main structure. The interior has not been seen. The style of the building resembles that of Nathaniel Ireson of Wincanton, but there is no evidence to confirm his involvement.
Local climate
The Old Manse 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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