Charlton House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Country house. 11 related planning applications.
Charlton House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-pewter-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Charlton House, Charlton Road, Shepton Mallet, BA4 4PR
- OS grid reference
- ST 632 428
- Coordinates
- 51.18409, -2.52652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Charlton House is a country house set in landscaped grounds, built around 1810. It is constructed from Doulting ashlar and features a hipped slate roof with dormers and three ashlar stacks that have moulding around their base and apex. The house has an "L"-shaped plan, is two storeys high with an attic, and consists of six bays. The sash windows are framed in plain stone architraves with prominent lintels, and the jambs extend as vertical bands below the sill level.
A central flat-roofed porch has a moulded cornice and parapet, with a semi-circular headed door opening flanked by smaller arches. The inner doorway features a Caernarvon arch head, a half-glazed door, and a fanlight above. There is a moulded string course at the first-floor level, a moulded cornice, and a parapet with moulded coping.
At the rear, there is a 17th-century wing that is much restored. Inside, the house contains early 19th-century fireplaces in the rooms flanking the ground floor hall, as well as a staircase with cast iron balusters and a moulded wood handrail.
Local climate
Charlton House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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