Hapsford House is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Hapsford House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-lancet-thistle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Hapsford House, Great Elm, BA11 3NW
- OS grid reference
- ST 759 496
- Coordinates
- 51.24588, -2.34599
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hapsford House is a country house dating from the early 19th century. It is built of rendered and scribed stone, with rusticated ashlar quoins, and has hipped slate roofs with wide eaves and four ashlar stacks, one with paired hexagonal caps. The garden frontage is designed in a Gothic style with an irregular arrangement of two, one, and two bays; the side bays are two-storey, while the central section is single-storey. The windows are 16-pane sash windows with Gothick heads, set within chamfered stone surrounds with stopped labels. The glazing bars have been removed from the ground-floor windows of the right bays. A flat-roofed, single-storey, semi-circular ashlar bow is located on the ground floor of the left wing, and there are three pairs of French windows with horizontal glazing bars above a traceried parapet. The central section also features a single-storey section with a canted bay under a hipped roof, featuring a pair of French windows with horizontal glazing bars and marginal lights to each face. Two door openings flank the right bays, each with three-quarter glazed doors that have Gothicised glazing bars and scrolled block pediments. A glazed verandah supported by cast iron is positioned across the front. A single-storey conservatory with a leaded roof, built in the same Gothic style, extends from the right side. The interior is decorated in a similar elaborate Gothic style; two rooms on the ground floor have ribbed and vaulted plaster ceilings.
Local climate
Hapsford House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- 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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