Leversdown House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1963. House. 17 related planning applications.
Leversdown House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-steel-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- Leversdown House, Thurloxton, TA2 8RN
- OS grid reference
- ST 282 297
- Coordinates
- 51.06221, -3.02461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leversdown House is an early 19th-century house in Thurlxton. It is built of creamwashed roughcast, with a hipped slate roof and brick stacks. The symmetrical front facade has two storeys and three bays, divided by plain pilasters. The first floor has 16-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has tripartite cambered head sash windows with a 4:16:4 pane configuration. A recessed central porch features a flat stone entablature supported by two Tuscan columns, with engaged columns on the side walls, and double three-quarter glazed doors. The interior retains simple original features, including a staircase and elliptical-headed archways.
Local climate
Leversdown House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 17 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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