The Old Rising Sun is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rising Sun
- WRENN ID
- gentle-arch-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rising Sun, Thorney, Kingsbury Episcopi, TA10 0DR
- OS grid reference
- ST 427 227
- Coordinates
- 51.0015, -2.81781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rising Sun is a 17th-century house located in Thorney, Kingsbury Episcopi. It features colourwashed brick with some render and a thatched roof, along with an end brick stack. The building is two storeys high and has two bays with three-light casement windows. There is a door opening in a 19th-century brick wing, which has a slate roof and brick stacks. This wing also includes two bays with sash windows that have glazing bars and a four-panelled door.
Local climate
The Old Rising Sun receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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