Bank House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. Town house. 2 related planning applications.
Bank House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-frieze-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1950
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Bank House, 28, Swain Street, Watchet, TA23 0AD
- OS grid reference
- ST 070 433
- Coordinates
- 51.1821, -3.33073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank House is a town house built around 1730 to 1740. It is constructed of brick with a moulded stone plinth and chamfered stone quoins. The roof is slate with stone-coped gables and brick end chimney stacks. The building features two steeply gabled dormers that contain casement windows and has a modillion eaves cornice. It stands two storeys plus attics and has a four-window front, with sash windows that have exposed frames and glazing bars, along with brick voussoirs and keystones. The entrance has a square-headed door opening framed by a Gibbs type surround, which includes rusticated stone architraves, voussoirs, a keystone, and a cornice.
Local climate
Bank House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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