Fern Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Fern Bank
- WRENN ID
- riven-shingle-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fern Bank, Lower North Street, Cheddar, BS27 3HA
- OS grid reference
- ST 458 532
- Coordinates
- 51.27619, -2.77804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Bank is a cottage built around 1820 for the Marquis of Bath. It features a rubble exterior and a hipped slate roof with wide eaves and two end brick stacks. The architectural style is Gothick. The building has two storeys and two bays. On the first floor, there are Gothicised casements with pointed-arch heads and painted brick voussoirs, each with an emphasised key. The ground floor has a single French window on each side, also with pointed arch heads and painted brick voussoirs with emphasised keys. The central door opening has a pointed arch head and a ribbed and studded door, along with a later added rubble and glazed flat-roofed porch designed in a matching style, featuring paired half-glazed outer doors. To the left, there is a single-storey outshut with a hipped roof and 20th-century casements, and to the right, there is another single-storey outshut from the 20th century.
Local climate
Fern Bank receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 5 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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