Lamb House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House. 1 related planning application.
Lamb House
- WRENN ID
- stark-dormer-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lamb House, 25, St Thomas Street, Wells, BA5 2UU
- OS grid reference
- ST 553 460
- Coordinates
- 51.21229, -2.64028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lamb House is a house in a row, built around 1800. It features a facade made of Doulting ashlar stone, with rendered sides and a Welsh slate mansard roof that has coped gables and rendered end chimney stacks. The building has two storeys with attics and consists of three bays.
The exterior includes a plinth, a deep cornice, and a plain parapet with moulded coping. The first bay on the ground floor has a flat-roofed 32-pane bow window, which is flanked by fluted side pilasters and has a fascia with a cornice. The third bay and all first-floor bays contain 12-pane sash windows in plain openings. The central doorway, accessed by four steps, features a six-panel door with a cast-iron rectangular fanlight that has ornamental glazing bars. This doorway is set within an architrave and topped with a pediment hood supported by console brackets, above which is a wrought-iron bracket that once held a lamp. There are flat-roofed dormer windows behind the parapet for the first and third bays.
The interior has not been inspected. The house is noted for its fine ashlar facade and distinctive bow window.
Local climate
Lamb House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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