The Spinning Wheel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House, restaurant. 2 related planning applications.
The Spinning Wheel
- WRENN ID
- pitched-eave-onyx
- 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, restaurant
- Address
- The Spinning Wheel, the Square, Axbridge, BS26 2AR
- OS grid reference
- ST 431 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28694, -2.81728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Spinning Wheel is a house that has been converted into a restaurant. It dates from the 15th or 16th century, with some alterations made in the early 19th century. The building is rendered and has a pantile roof that runs at right angles to the front. There is a tall rendered chimney stack rising from the eaves on the left side, along with two additional brick chimney stacks on the ridge.
The structure is two storeys high with a one-bay frontage beneath a gable. On the first floor, there is a flush-mounted 12-pane sash window that slightly overhangs. The ground floor features a renewed 19th-century double shop front, which includes a 9-light window on each side of a 20th-century glazed door, topped with a narrow fascia board.
At the rear, facing Moorland Street, there is a three-bay return. The first floor has 20th-century two-light casement windows with glazing bars, while the ground floor has two flush-mounted 12-pane sash windows. There are two door openings: on the right, there is a four-panelled door set in a moulded surround with an open pediment on brackets; on the left, there is a vertical plank door with a central glazed light, also featuring an open pediment on brackets. The north wall of the first floor is timber framed.
Local climate
The Spinning Wheel 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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