Paradise House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. A Early C19 House.
Paradise House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-basalt-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Paradise House, Long Street, Croscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 588 443
- Coordinates
- 51.19698, -2.59062
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Paradise House is an early 19th-century house located on Long Street in Croscombe. The exterior features stucco that is scribed to imitate ashlar stone, with end pilasters that have vertical grooving. The house has a slate roof with coped verges and end brick stacks. It has a symmetrical frontage with two storeys and three bays, showcasing 12-pane sash windows set in dressed stone surrounds. The central door opening contains a six-panelled door topped with a fanlight that has radiating glazing bars. The doorcase is adorned with Tuscan pilasters that support a triglyph frieze and a moulded cornice.
Local climate
Paradise House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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