West Somerset Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1982. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
West Somerset Hotel
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-wicket-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1982
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- West Somerset Hotel, 17, Swain Street, Watchet, TA23 0AB
- OS grid reference
- ST 070 433
- Coordinates
- 51.18162, -3.33051
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The West Somerset Hotel, located at No. 17 Swain Street, is probably an early 19th-century building with later additions. It features a stucco exterior and a slate roof with brick chimney stacks. The hotel is two storeys high and has a road frontage divided into two sections. The earlier part on the left has three windows, which are sashes with glazing bars and exposed frames, along with pilasters. The right-hand section is set slightly back and has a five-window elevation, with sashes, some of which also have glazing bars. There is a stringcourse present. The building includes two doorways, one of which is centrally located and blocked. To the right, there is a wide coach arch with a flat arch and plain boarded double doors.
Local climate
West Somerset Hotel receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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