The Cressy Including Front Garden Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1989. House.
The Cressy Including Front Garden Area Railings
- WRENN ID
- noble-quoin-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cressy Including Front Garden Area Railings, the Shambles, Shepton Beauchamp
- OS grid reference
- ST 402 172
- Coordinates
- 50.95113, -2.85216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cressy is a house dating from the early 19th century, constructed from coursed stone brick and topped with a slate roof that features stone coped gable ends and gable end stacks with short red brick shafts. The building has a double depth rectangular plan, consisting of two main front rooms separated by an entrance passageway that includes front and back doorways. The smaller room on the left has a large kitchen behind it, while the deeper room on the right contains a straight staircase that rises from the back of the room; the space to the right of the staircase is occupied by the adjoining Corner House.
The exterior of the house is two storeys high with a symmetrical two-window front. It features 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars, where the left ground floor window is slightly larger and the right ground floor window is a small canted bay with a hipped slate roof and a 20th-century plaster window frame. The central doorway has a late 19th-century glazed and panelled door. The rear elevation includes 20th-century windows, plank doors, and late 19th and 20th-century porches.
The property also includes 19th-century front garden area railings made of wrought iron with arrow heads on the shafts, set on a dressed stone plinth, along with small monolithic stone gate-piers topped with ogee caps and a similar wrought iron gate with a curved base. Inside, the house features 19th-century joinery, including panelled and plank doors, a straight staircase with a simple stick balustrade, and a first-floor fireplace with a moulded shelf and a Victorian iron grate. The roof space is not accessible.
Local climate
The Cressy Including Front Garden Area Railings receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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