Hartswell House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. House.
Hartswell House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-rubble-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hartswell House, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 080 273
- Coordinates
- 51.03768, -3.31243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hartswell House is an 18th-century house that has been refronted and extended, featuring a single bay to the left of an earlier core. The building is rendered and has a low-pitched Welsh slate roof behind a parapet, which is adorned with a 20th-century moulded wooden cornice and brick stacks. It stands two storeys tall and has a layout of one bay on the left and five bays overall. The windows are irregularly placed, with two casement windows on the left and the others being sashes with glazing bars. There is a single-storey flat-roofed porch, which has a 20th-century moulded cornice and a tripartite sash window from the late 19th century. The rear elevation features three gables and 20th-century fenestration.
Local climate
Hartswell House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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