The Borough Venture and Forecourt Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House, shop, cafe. 2 related planning applications.
The Borough Venture and Forecourt Wall
- WRENN ID
- proud-clay-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House, shop, cafe
- Address
- The Borough Venture and Forecourt Wall, Wedmore, BS28 4EB
- OS grid reference
- ST 436 478
- Coordinates
- 51.22693, -2.80855
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-18th century house, now used as a shop and cafe. It is constructed of stucco with a double-Roman tile roof and has two brick stacks. The building is in a Gothick style, with two storeys and a 2:1 bay arrangement. The left two bays feature pointed arch window openings, with iron casements containing leaded lights and iron quadrants. The right bay has a flush-mounted 16-pane sash window on the first floor. A projecting shop front from the 20th century occupies the ground floor of the right bay. The left two bays have a central pointed arch doorway, leading to a ribbed and studded door, sheltered by a metal tent-canopy supported by later wrought-iron. A rubble wall defines the forecourt, capped with tufa, and incorporates a central wrought-iron gate. A single-storey addition to the right is not part of the listed building.
Local climate
The Borough Venture and Forecourt Wall receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2001
- 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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