Cliff House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. House. 3 related planning applications.
Cliff House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-passage-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cliff House, Cole Road, Bruton, BA10 0DE
- OS grid reference
- ST 677 342
- Coordinates
- 51.10674, -2.4617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cliff House is a house built in the early 19th century, around 1820, using local stone pebbledash that is rendered and colourwashed, with stone dressings that are mostly painted. It features a hipped Welsh slate roof behind parapets and has end chimney stacks with moulded caps, one made of brick and the other of stone. The main house has three storeys and three bays, with a plinth, plain pilasters, an eaves cornice, and a shallow plain parapet. The ground and first floors have 16-pane sash windows with reeled architrave surrounds, while the second floor has 12-pane sashes. A central projecting stone porch is supported by fluted Doric columns and features a non-classical castellated entablature, with margined glazed infill panels and part glazed doors.
To the south, there is a two-storey extension with an attic that has four bays and a Mansard roof. To the north, there is a single-storey flat-roofed caretaker's bungalow, both of which are excluded from the listing. The interior retains original features such as the staircase, doors, door cases, and window shutters, all in the Regency style. The house was built by Mr. Thomas Hannam on the site of an earlier house, which is now part of Sexey's School.
Local climate
Cliff House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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