South End House, and Front Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
South End House, and Front Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-lime-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- South End House, and Front Boundary Wall, Field Road, High Ham, TA10 9DH
- OS grid reference
- ST 425 308
- Coordinates
- 51.07412, -2.8212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South End House is a detached villa-style house dating to circa 1840. It is constructed of local lias stone, squared and cut, with dressings of Ham stone, and has a hipped roof of Welsh slate, along with a stone chimney stack. The house is two storeys high and has three bays. Features include a plinth, rusticated quoins, and a coffered eaves soffite. The windows are 16-pane sashes in plain openings with voussoired flat arches. The central bay has a 6-panel door set within a semi-circular arched opening, which has a radial glazed fanlight, and is protected by an open timber porch with Tuscan columns and pilasters, as well as a full plain entablature. The porch's interior was not inspected.
To the west of the house, approximately 15 metres away, is a front boundary wall constructed of lias stone, with curved returns to the gates. The wall is plainly coped. A pedestrian gate has rusticated Ham stone piers, with plinths, bell-hip caps, and ball finials. The car access gates have stone piers with plain, shallow pyramidal caps. The wrought iron gates have spearhead middle-rail finials and scroll tops. The pedestrian gate is from the 19th century, while the others are 20th-century replacements. The gates enhance the setting of the house.
Local climate
South End House, and Front Boundary Wall 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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