Fairlands House and Attached Wall to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1972. House.

Fairlands House and Attached Wall to Rear

WRENN ID
heavy-passage-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1972
Type
House
Address
Fairlands House and Attached Wall to Rear, Froglands Lane, Cheddar
OS grid reference
ST 460 530
Coordinates
51.27391, -2.77461
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fairlands House is a house that likely dates from the 17th century, with alterations made in the late 18th century and early 19th century, and a refenestration in the late 19th century. The building is roughcast with a pantile roof, except for a slate roof over a projecting wing, which is hipped and has a ridge at right angles to the front. There are four late 19th-century brick stacks capped with dressed stone, and a moulded cornice and parapet on the projecting wing.

The house has two storeys and features a 4:1 bay arrangement. The first floor has 2-light casements with marginal glazing bars in the left four bays, while the ground floor has similar French windows. In the right bay, there is a 16-pane sash window set in a moulded architrave on the first floor, and three-quarter glazed French windows with marginal glazing bars in a moulded stone surround on the ground floor. The door opening in the third bay has a 6-panelled door, with the top two panels glazed, and is topped by a triangular pediment on pilasters. This entrance is currently obscured by an early 19th-century wooden "trellis" porch with a hipped lead-sheeting roof.

At the rear, there is an early 19th-century two-storey cheese-room that has been converted into a kitchen. Inside, the house features a 19th-century staircase and window shutters. The room to the right on the ground floor has a fluted plaster cornice, two segmental-headed niches with wood-panelled reveals, and a mid-19th-century fireplace with a marble surround. Additionally, there is a rubble wall extending 62 metres to the rear, which bounds the leat of a former mill that existed on this site in the 17th and 18th centuries, although all traces of the mill building have now disappeared.

Local climate

Fairlands House and Attached Wall to Rear 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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