Jennings House and Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. House. 2 related planning applications.
Jennings House and Front Boundary Railings
- WRENN ID
- first-cornice-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- Jennings House and Front Boundary Railings, North Street, Somerton, TA11 7NZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 491 286
- Coordinates
- 51.05525, -2.72748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jennings House is a semi-detached house dating from the 17th century. It is built of local lias stone that has been cut and squared, featuring painted ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with clay pantiles and has stepped coped gables, along with brick chimney stacks. The house has two storeys with attics and consists of three bays.
On the ground floor, there are pairs of 8-pane sash windows located under label mouldings in the outer bays. Above these, there are three-light ovolo mould mullioned windows set in wave mould recesses under labels, with a matching two-light window positioned in the attic gables. The centre bay of the ground floor features a 12-pane sash window and a flush panelled door with a glazed toplight, which is set under a stone hood supported by simple brackets. There are no windows on the upper floor.
To the immediate east of the house, there is a matching stone boundary wall approximately 450mm high, topped with plain shaped copings. On this wall, cast iron railings about 600mm high with three-point finials are set. There is also a matching gate that features more elaborate fleurs-de-lys spikes on the gate standards, all of which contribute to the setting of the house.
Local climate
Jennings House and Front Boundary Railings receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
- 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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