No 32 (Priory House), and Wing Wall to West is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Town house. 4 related planning applications.

No 32 (Priory House), and Wing Wall to West

WRENN ID
vast-kitchen-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 March 1961
Type
Town house
Address
No 32 (Priory House), and Wing Wall to West, High Street, Bruton, BA10 0AE
OS grid reference
ST 682 348
Coordinates
51.11188, -2.45486
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

No. 32, also known as Priory House, is a large town house that is part of a row of buildings. It possibly had its front updated in the late 18th century. The house is constructed from local stone that has been rendered and features ashlar dressings, with a colourwashed finish. It has a stone slate roof situated between coped gables and brick chimney stacks at each end. The building stands two storeys tall with an attic and consists of five bays.

There is a plinth, band courses, and pilaster strips. The first bay has a blocked doorway below and a blind window above. The other bays contain large 12-pane sash windows set in architraved surrounds, each topped with flat hoods. In the third bay, there is a low and wide six-panel door within a stone surround, flanked by fluted attached Doric columns, an entablature, and a flat hood. Between the third and fourth bays, there is a late 20th-century glazed door with a non-matching hood. The interior has not been seen.

To the west of the building, there is a three-metre-high screen wall with plain coping. This wall features a former pedestrian entrance and a coach entrance, both of which have blocked segmental arched surrounds, with the larger one having a keystone. The wall connects with No. 34 and screens a late 20th-century wing that is set back and not included in the listing. Additionally, set into the west gable of the house is a stone with an upside-down heart-shaped recess inscribed "D-TM-1797." This appears to be a recent insert and may originate from a demolished building, of which only the street wall remains.

Local climate

No 32 (Priory House), and Wing Wall to West receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. 30, High Street Grade II 17 m
  2. 27, High Street Grade II 19 m
  3. 31, High Street Grade II 20 m
  4. Hamilton House Grade II 20 m
  5. 25, High Street Grade II 25 m
  6. The Sun Inn Grade II 26 m
  7. The Priory Grade II* 29 m
  8. 23, High Street Grade II 31 m
  9. Former Congregational Chapel Grade II 31 m
  10. 35 and 35a, High Street Grade II 39 m