Morecambe House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Morecambe House
- WRENN ID
- twisted-cellar-ivy
- 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
- Morecambe House, St Marys Street, Axbridge, BS26 2BN
- OS grid reference
- ST 431 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28731, -2.81633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Morecambe House is a late 18th-century house located in St Mary’s Street, Axbridge. The house is constructed of roughcast with rusticated end pilasters, topped with a parapet featuring moulded coping and coped verges. The roof is double Roman tile, with two rendered stacks and one brick stack.
The building is symmetrical in design, with two storeys and three bays. The upper floor has 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 16-pane sash windows. A recessed central door opening contains a 6-panelled door and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars, all supported by an open triangular pediment resting on reeded pilasters.
A wing extends at a right angle to the rear of the main house, featuring 20th-century casement windows, and a 6-panelled door accessed by a set of two stone and two concrete steps. The interior retains features from the original construction period.
Local climate
Morecambe 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- 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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