Park House and Forecourt Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Park House and Forecourt Railings
- WRENN ID
- broken-stronghold-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Park House and Forecourt Railings, St Marys Street, Axbridge, BS26 2BN
- OS grid reference
- ST 432 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28702, -2.81501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park House is a mid-18th century house with associated forecourt railings. The house is three storeys high and has three bays. The exterior is roughcast with bands at floor levels, and the roof is pantiled, with a coped verge on the right side and a brick ridge stack. It features flush-mounted twelve-pane sash windows, except for the second-floor windows, which have six panes. The central door opening contains a six-panelled door with glazed top panels, surmounted by a flat wooden hood with moulded edges supported on brackets. The forecourt is enclosed by wrought iron railings with spear caps, and includes a central ornamental wrought iron gate.
Local climate
Park House and Forecourt Railings receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 2006
- 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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