Lock Up is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Lock-up.
Lock Up
- WRENN ID
- slow-gateway-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Lock-up
- Address
- Lock Up, Thorney Road, Kingsbury Episcopi
- OS grid reference
- ST 434 211
- Coordinates
- 50.98651, -2.80731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lock-up, previously known as The Round House, is an 18th-century structure located on Thorney Road in Kingsbury Episcopi. It is octagonal in shape and constructed from coursed and squared rubble, topped with a segmental stone roof and a ball finial. The building features a narrow door opening framed with a chamfered edge, leading to a studded plank door secured with strap hinges. Additionally, there are two very narrow barred windows.
Local climate
Lock Up 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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