Alford House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Detached house. 3 related planning applications.
Alford House
- WRENN ID
- inner-frieze-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Alford House, BA7 7PN
- OS grid reference
- ST 605 326
- Coordinates
- 51.092, -2.5643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alford House is a detached house, originally dating from the late 18th century, but substantially remodelled in 1877 by F.C. Penrose. It is constructed of local lias stone with Ham stone dressings, featuring hipped Welsh slate roofs behind low parapets and stone chimney stacks. The house is designed in a neo-Elizabethan style. The west elevation has five bays, with bays 2 and 4 projecting forward and being taller than the others. It has two and three storeys with attics. The ground-floor windows are ovolo-moulded mullioned with transoms and flat heads; the first-floor windows feature three-centre arched lights with hood moulds; all are two-light except the centre bay, which is three-light. The second floor of bays 2 and 4 has margined sash windows set within pointed arched openings, while the other bays have timber gabled dormers. There are semi-circular arched porches set forward of bays 2 and 4, with flat roofs behind parapets topped with ball and obelisk finials. A bellcote sits on the roof between bays 1 and 2. The south elevation mirrors the west, with a projecting two-storey bay window in the centre and dormer windows over each bay. The east elevation incorporates an octagonal stair turret with a spired slate roof. The interior has not been inspected, but is apparently little altered.
Local climate
Alford House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- 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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