The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- steep-portal-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, 25, Manor Road, Catcott, TA7 9HD
- OS grid reference
- ST 392 392
- Coordinates
- 51.14938, -2.87026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century, which underwent significant alterations in the early 19th century. The exterior is rendered and colourwashed, featuring a triple-Roman tile roof and pierced cusped ornamental barge boards. There are brick stacks with moulded freestone caps, some of which are grouped together, giving the building a Tudoresque style.
The house is two storeys high with four bays, and it has casement windows with glazing bars; the first-floor windows are set in half dormers. The central entrance has a half-glazed door. Inside, there are some chamfered and stopped ceiling beams, a fireplace with a broad wooden bressumer, early 19th-century plaster cornices, and remnants of the original 16th or 17th-century roof beneath the current 19th-century roof.
Local climate
The Old House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 1 application
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- 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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