Harnesses is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. Semi-detached house.
Harnesses
- WRENN ID
- western-garret-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Semi-detached house
- Address
- Harnesses, Main Road, Long Load
- OS grid reference
- ST 465 231
- Coordinates
- 51.00531, -2.76312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harnesses is a semi-detached house located on Main Road, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from local lias stone that is cut and squared, with Bridgwater patent interlocking clay tiles on the roof, which features stepped coped gables and brick chimney stacks. The house has two storeys and consists of two bays. It has small-pane casement windows with two lights, following an earlier pattern, set beneath large lias stone lintels. Between the bays, there is a boarded door in a simple matching opening. The interior has not been seen. Attached to the north side of Harnesses is another building known as Maddisons.
Local climate
Harnesses 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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