Benter House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1986. Country house. 3 related planning applications.
Benter House
- WRENN ID
- patient-passage-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1986
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Benter House, Fosse Way, Stratton on the Fosse, BA3 4SZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 649 491
- Coordinates
- 51.24028, -2.50328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Benter House is a small country house built in 1829, with later alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and features prominent quoin bands, a moulded cornice, a parapet with moulded coping, hipped slate roofs, and ashlar stacks. The symmetrical garden front has a layout of one bay, three bays, and one bay, with the central three bays stepping forward. It includes twelve and sixteen-pane sash windows set in architraves, as well as three three-quarter glazed French windows in the central bays on the ground floor. The returns and rear of the house are styled similarly. Inside, there is an interesting staircase, ornamental plasterwork, and decorative chimney-pieces.
Local climate
Benter House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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