Sales House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1952. House. 4 related planning applications.
Sales House
- WRENN ID
- first-pier-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sales House, Draycott Road, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5HS
- OS grid reference
- ST 617 438
- Coordinates
- 51.19277, -2.54943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sales House is a house that has been converted into flats, dated 1769. It is built of Doulting ashlar with a slate roof and ashlar stacks, showcasing a classical style with a symmetrical facade. The building has three storeys and nine bays arranged in a 3:3:3 pattern. The central three windows are set in an angular bay that rises through all floors, supported by three semi-circular arches with imposts, which form an open porch at the main entrance. The door opening is semi-circular with a radiating fanlight and a six-panelled door.
The porch is flanked by sash windows with glazing bars, framed in moulded architraves. The first and second floor openings have a similar design, with the first floor sills resting on moulded brackets and a triangular pediment above the central opening of each group of three windows. A moulded and dentil cornice is topped by a plain parapet with coping. There is an ornamental rainwater head on the left side, dated 1769.
To the right of the main facade, there is a projecting wing at right angles, which is rendered and has a slate roof. This wing also has three storeys and eight bays, featuring two-light stone mullioned windows, except for the extreme right of the wing where the second floor has a triple light window and a Venetian window below. The door opening in this wing has a flat entablature supported by slender Tuscan columns.
The building was once a Convent of Visitation Nuns belonging to an order founded around 1617 by St. Francois de Sales, and the community disbanded around 1810.
Local climate
Sales House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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