6, Higher Backway is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Coachhouse. 7 related planning applications.
6, Higher Backway
- WRENN ID
- south-granite-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Coachhouse
- Address
- 6, Higher Backway, Bruton, BA10 0DW
- OS grid reference
- ST 682 348
- Coordinates
- 51.11226, -2.45542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century coach house and groom's house. Originally part of No. 29, Hamilton House, it may have become a separate property in the mid-19th century when Hamilton House became Stuckey’s Bank. The building is constructed of local stone rubble with ashlar stone quoins and dressings, and has a clay double Roman tile roof with simple gables. It is two storeys high and five bays wide. Bay 1 features 20th-century garage doors. Bay 2 has an elliptical arched doorway with voussoirs and a keystone, with circular windows above. Bay 3 incorporates a large elliptical coach arch, with a small, unlettered plaque above. Bay 4 contains a three-light leaded casement window set within an elliptical arch, with two similar two-light windows placed above. Bay 5 has a plain door within an elliptical archway.
Local climate
6, Higher Backway receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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