Stanley House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

Stanley House

WRENN ID
plain-hall-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Stanley House, St Marys Street, Axbridge, BS26 2BN
OS grid reference
ST 432 545
Coordinates
51.28707, -2.81577
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stanley House is a late 18th-century house located on the south side of St Marys Street in Axbridge. The building is roughcast with a double Roman tile roof and features two brick ridge stacks. It stands two storeys high and has three bays. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 16-pane sash windows, with the centre window being blank. The central door opening is framed by a semi-circular headed stone surround that includes shaped consoles supporting an open pediment. The door itself is a six-panelled design, and there is a blocked fanlight above it.

Local climate

Stanley House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 1 transaction since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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