Esplanade House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1982. House. 4 related planning applications.
Esplanade House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-spire-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Esplanade House, 9, the Esplanade, Watchet, TA23 0AJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 072 433
- Coordinates
- 51.18186, -3.32887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Esplanade House is a late 18th-century house of stucco construction with slate roofs and brick chimney stacks. It has a two-storey, L-shaped plan. The front façade, facing The Esplanade, has three window bays, with sash windows containing glazing bars. Each window is topped by a flat arch with projecting keystones and voussoirs. Quoins and pilasters are present. A return wing facing the garden also has a three-window elevation, and a central doorway.
Local climate
Esplanade House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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