Bowlish Villa and Flanking Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Bowlish Villa and Flanking Garden Walls
- WRENN ID
- first-arch-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bowlish Villa and Flanking Garden Walls, Forum Lane, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5JW
- OS grid reference
- ST 611 440
- Coordinates
- 51.19418, -2.55666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowlish Villa is a house dating from around 1700, with later alterations. It is built of rubble, rendered and covered with a slate roof, and features ashlar table chimneys. The house is symmetrical and oblong in plan. It has three storeys and two bays. A central doorway is defined by a flat architrave and a plain doorcase dating from the 18th century. The door itself is contemporary with its surround. Bay windows were added around 1850, flanking the doorway on either side and each topped with a small hipped roof. The upper floors have stone mullion windows of two lights, fitted with 19th-century sash windows. A dripmould runs across the front as a string course at first floor level. The chimneys have moulded caps. Flanking walls extend along the front, with the wall on the left incorporating a pointed arch garden door.
Local climate
Bowlish Villa and Flanking Garden Walls 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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