Long's House and Outbuilding Abutting North and Abutting Wall Fronting Road with Lamp Standard is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Farmhouse, workshop. 3 related planning applications.
Long's House and Outbuilding Abutting North and Abutting Wall Fronting Road with Lamp Standard
- WRENN ID
- stony-obsidian-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, workshop
- OS grid reference
- ST 322 253
- Coordinates
- 51.02331, -2.96721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Long's House is a farmhouse and workshop that has been linked and enlarged to form a dwelling, likely dating from the 17th century, with the workshop dated 1762. The building underwent extensive alterations and enlargements around 1900. It features squared and coursed local limestone and Ham stone ashlar, with a coped verge on the south gable end, decorative ridge tiles, and a pyramid roof on a two-storey porch studio-type addition. The roofs are slate, and there are brick stacks at the gable ends.
The layout is uncertain without an internal inspection, but it is probably an original L-plan dwelling set gable end onto the road, oriented roughly west-east, with a south-west wing that includes a two-storey addition set in the angle. A detached workshop is located on the east front, linked to the dwelling in the late 19th century when the range was reroofed.
The south-east front features a one-and-a-half storey south wing, while the rest is two-storey, with a 1:3:1 bay arrangement and mixed fenestration. There are three cruciform windows with coloured glass on the first floor center of the porch addition, similar windows on the ground floor flanking the entrance with double doors. To the right on the ground floor are two early 19th-century leaded iron casements. The right return (east elevation) facing the road has a 2:4 bay arrangement, with 19th-century sash windows in the gable end and a door to the right. The workshop has two-light unglazed openings and a raised and fielded panel above the central entrance, which is dated 1762. It also features a large square-headed doorway with chamfered architraves and a plank door, along with a lean-to one bay addition to the right.
A red brick wall with flat stone coping, about one meter high, sweeps down from the north-east gable end fronting the garden and returns to the south side. There is also a decorative wrought iron lamp standard with curved supports.
Local climate
Long's House and Outbuilding Abutting North and Abutting Wall Fronting Road with Lamp Standard receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 3 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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