Sycamore House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House.
Sycamore House
- WRENN ID
- floating-moulding-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sycamore House, 15, Tor Street, Wells
- OS grid reference
- ST 553 459
- Coordinates
- 51.2108, -2.64093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sycamore House is a house in a row located on Tor Street in Wells. It features a 19th-century facade that covers a 17th-century building. The exterior is rendered and has a triple roll clay tiled roof with coped gables and brick chimney stacks at both ends. The house is three storeys high and has two bays. It has a plinth and sash windows with 12 panes on the ground and first floors, and 9 panes on the second floor. The lower bay includes a 6-panel door with a timber doorcase that has a moulded architrave and a pediment hood supported by console-type brackets. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Sycamore House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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.
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