Wheatleigh House is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. House.
Wheatleigh House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-cobble-soot
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wheatleigh House, Wheatleigh Close, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 220 237
- Coordinates
- 51.00813, -3.11204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheatleigh House is a very good early to mid 19th-century house that was originally set in its own grounds and is now located at the corner of Wheatleigh Road and Galmingon Road. The building is constructed of fenestrated ashlar and has two storeys, with its main fronts facing east and south. It features hipped slate roofs, a dentil cornice, and a blocking course, as well as banded quotas.
The center of the east front has a small bow with Corinthian columns on the first floor, which is supported by a substantial frieze with Ionic columns on the ground floor. The first-floor windows have architrave surrounds on each side, while the ground floor includes canted bays with a recessed central doorway. The glazing has been altered.
On the south front, there is a large seven-sided extension in the form of a bay, supported by an Ionic colonnade that connects to the frieze on the east front. The windows in this extension have shouldered architrave surrounds and sashes with wide glazing bars. There are also later extensions on the south side that have been altered and run forward.
Local climate
Wheatleigh House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Sale history — 26 transactions since 1996
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- Radon risk assessment
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