Brean House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
Brean House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-stone-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brean House, 16, West Street, Axbridge, BS26 2AD
- OS grid reference
- ST 428 546
- Coordinates
- 51.28776, -2.82078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brean House is a late 18th-century house located on the north side of West Street, Axbridge. The house is constructed of roughcast, with end pilasters of dressed stone featuring vertical grooving and anthemion motifs. It has a pantile roof with wide eaves and two brick stacks. The main part of the house is two storeys high with three bays, displaying 12-pane sash windows. A 6-panelled door is set within a recess, a stone doorcase with a shallow moulded cornice and pilaster frieze. The transom-light features leaded decoration and three small stained glass panels. To the left of the house is a two-storey coach house with a single hay loft, also with a pantile roof and a coped verge to the left, featuring a brick stack. A 12-pane sash window is on the first floor. The ground floor has a broad segmental-headed door opening with paired 3-panelled doors, and a further narrow segmental-headed door opening with a plank door featuring vertical ribbing.
Local climate
Brean 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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