Boundary or Direction Stone 6 Metres North of No 15 (Batcombe House) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. Boundary stone.
Boundary or Direction Stone 6 Metres North of No 15 (Batcombe House)
- WRENN ID
- solemn-lancet-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Boundary stone
- OS grid reference
- ST 498 193
- Coordinates
- 50.97113, -2.71566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a boundary or direction stone located 6 metres north of No. 15 (Batcombe House) on Head Street. The date of the stone is uncertain. It is made of Ham stone, approximately 250 millimetres thick and 500 millimetres wide, standing about 1.3 metres high with a rounded top. There are no visible inscriptions, but there are vague indications of former lettering. It is possibly a direction stone situated at a significant road junction in the village on this unturnpiked road.
Local climate
Boundary or Direction Stone 6 Metres North of No 15 (Batcombe House) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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