Hurst Barton with Front Boundary Railings and Walling is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House. 6 related planning applications.
Hurst Barton with Front Boundary Railings and Walling
- WRENN ID
- scattered-eave-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hurst Barton with Front Boundary Railings and Walling, Martock, TA12 6JU
- OS grid reference
- ST 457 187
- Coordinates
- 50.96559, -2.77386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hurst Barton is a house dating from 1657, with alterations made in the early 20th century. The house is constructed of Ham stone ashlar, with Bridgwater patent interlocking tiles to the stepped coped gables. The chimney stacks are of brick and stone slab. It is arranged over two storeys and six bays, with bays 2, 3, and 4 likely being the oldest parts of the building. The upper floor features mullioned windows with beaded and architraved surrounds; these are three-light except for bay 4, which is four-light, and bay 5, where the window is set lower. Bay 6 has no upper window. The lower floor has hollow-chamfered mullioned windows of four lights in bays 3 and 4, sharing a continuous stepped label with a moulded, flat-arched doorway in bay 2. Bay 1 has an early 20th-century door in a plain beaded surround, while bays 5 and 6 have similar doors in architraved surrounds; the last is a pair of doors. Some windows have cast iron opening lights with stays, now topped with 19th-century tulip finials. The interior of the house has not been inspected.
Approximately 2.5 metres east of the house is a low stone wall supporting wrought-iron necked-pointed railings with cast acanthus finials to curved-braced standards. Elaborate panelled wrought-iron gates are positioned opposite doors to bays 2 and 6, and return to the house. South of the house extends a cut and squared Ham stone wall, about 2 metres high with flat coping, returning to a central gateway with square piers having coved pyramidal tops. This wall contributes to the setting of the house and the general street scene.
Local climate
Hurst Barton with Front Boundary Railings and Walling 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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