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

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Hapsford Gardens Grade II 114 m
  2. Murtry Aqueduct Grade II 296 m
  3. Disused Farmhouse at Ngr St 7604 4999 Grade II 311 m
  4. Milestone on A362 at Ngr St 7618 5005 Grade II 421 m
  5. Rock Cottage Grade II 507 m
  6. Murtry Lodges, Gates, Gate Piers and Railings at Entrance to Orchardlea Park Grade II 528 m
  7. The Castle, Forecourt Wall, Railings and Gate Piers Grade II 564 m
  8. Vallis Manor House Grade II 700 m
  9. Lime Kiln at Ngr St 7543 4919 Grade II 704 m
  10. Lime Kiln at Ngr St 7544 4918 Grade II 705 m