1, Gentle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1949. House. 7 related planning applications.
1, Gentle Street
- WRENN ID
- guardian-paling-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Gentle Street, Frome, BA11 1JA
- OS grid reference
- ST 776 478
- Coordinates
- 51.22948, -2.32145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 Gentle Street is an 18th-century building situated on a sloping, winding pedestrian street paved with stone setts. The front elevation is rendered with an ashlar plinth, side piers, and dressings, and features a modern pantile roof. The building is two and a half storeys high, with a central dormer window. It has three windows with glazing bar sashes set in reveals. A flush panelled door is sheltered by a flat, moulded hood supported by cut brackets. A range of glazing bar sashes is present on the gable end, and a basement window is also visible. A three-storey rubble cottage forms an extension to the rear, featuring three windows, with glazing bar sashes on the second floor, and one pair of glazing bar casements on the first floor. A central door has a wooden lintel, and a three-light oak-framed casement is located to the left (possibly originally featuring moulded mullions). A later projecting, two-storey, pantiled extension has been added to the left-hand side.
Local climate
1, Gentle Street receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 2000
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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