Ford House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Ford House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-cobble-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ford House, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 093 287
- Coordinates
- 51.05072, -3.29477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford House is a house built in 1799 and remodelled around 1840. It features a rendered exterior with pebbles, quoins, and a shallow pitched hipped Welsh slate roof with brick stacks. The building has three storeys and three bays. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, with tripartite windows in the outer bays and rusticated surrounds. The ground floor has 12-light mullioned and transomed splayed bay windows, with small wooden panes in the upper lights. There is a flanking glazed Tuscan porch that has a diamond pattern frieze, a leaded fanlight, and a four-panel double door that is approached by steps, leading to a glazed inner door with panelled reveals. To the right, there is a two-storey, single-bay extension with a hipped slate roof and mid-19th century sashes with glazing bars. The left return elevation has a 1:1 bay arrangement, with tripartite windows on the left and splayed bays similar to those on the facade on the first and second floors to the right.
Local climate
Ford House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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