Darlington House and Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Darlington House and Front Boundary Railings
- WRENN ID
- fallow-flagstone-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Darlington House and Front Boundary Railings, Roman Road, Ilchester, BA22 8NG
- OS grid reference
- ST 522 229
- Coordinates
- 51.00375, -2.6817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Darlington House is a detached house, likely built in the early 19th century. It is constructed of local lias stone coursed rubble with brick dressings around the windows, which were probably rendered in the past. The house features a hipped Welsh slate roof and a brick chimney stack. It has two storeys and five bays. The sash windows are set in segmental-arched openings, with 12 panes in the upper section and 15 panes in the lower section. The lower bay three contains a wide six-panel door with glazed toplights, framed by a bolection-mould timber architrave. This is complemented by an open stone porch supported by Tuscan columns and pilasters, featuring an entablature and pediment.
There is a two-bay extension to the north-east with a flat roof and a stone eaves course. Bay one of this extension has a matching sash window above and a three-centre-arched through carriageway below. Bay two has been modified to accommodate a mid-20th century shop, which is not of special interest. At the rear, there is an extension made of colourwashed brick with a plain clay tiled roof, which may be older than the main house. This extension includes boarded garage doors and two two-light stone mullioned windows with beaded surrounds, as well as a loft door and a set of pigeon holes above.
About 2 metres east of the house, there is a low wrought-iron railing with spear-point tops and cast urn finials on the standards, along with a pair of matching gates opposite the door. These features enhance the setting of the house and contribute to the overall streetscape.
Local climate
Darlington House and Front Boundary Railings receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 63% 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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