Marchants Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Marchants Hill House
- WRENN ID
- still-cellar-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Marchants Hill House, Portway Lane, Binegar, BA3 4TZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 624 505
- Coordinates
- 51.25284, -2.53942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marchants Hill House is an 18th-century cottage located on Portway Lane in Binegar. The building features roughcast walls and a double Roman tile roof with coped verges and end roughcast stacks. It stands two storeys tall with two bays, showcasing 2-light moulded stone mullioned windows, except for a 3-light window on the left side of the ground floor. The central door opening is framed by a dressed stone surround and has a half-glazed door, with a late 20th-century gabled half-glazed porch added. On the left side, there is a 4-keyed oval stair light facing the roadside. Inside, the cottage contains two six-panelled doors, a winder staircase, and a fireplace with a wooden bressumer and a 19th-century grate on the first floor.
Local climate
Marchants Hill House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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