The Sycamores, Forecourt Walls and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. A C19 House.

The Sycamores, Forecourt Walls and Gate

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1985
Type
House
Address
The Sycamores, Forecourt Walls and Gate, the Causeway, Mark
OS grid reference
ST 375 478
Coordinates
51.22596, -2.89571
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Sycamores is a house dating from the early 19th century, constructed with Flemish bond brickwork and featuring a double Roman tile roof with end brick stacks. The building is symmetrical, standing two storeys high with three bays. It has 16-pane sash windows with brick voussoirs and a central door opening that contains a six-panelled door, where the top four panels are glazed. A glazed gabled wooden porch with a slate roof, along with decorative bargeboard and a finial, enhance the entrance.

To the right of the house is a lower brick outshut with a slate roof and a coped verge. There is a section of high garden walling set back to the left of the frontage, which includes a pointed arch door opening with a plank door. The forecourt is enclosed by brick walls with brick capping on either side, the right side featuring a gateway with a decorative wrought-iron gate. Each wall ends in a pier with a stone cap at the roadside, and there is an additional wooden gate at the roadside.

Local climate

The Sycamores, Forecourt Walls and Gate receives an average of 820 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 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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