Quaker Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1956. House.
Quaker Lodge
- WRENN ID
- noble-spandrel-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- Quaker Lodge, North Street, Milverton
- OS grid reference
- ST 122 259
- Coordinates
- 51.02619, -3.25218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quaker Lodge is a house dating from the 18th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble and features slate roofs, hipped on the left side and gable-ended on the right, with brick stacks. The building has two storeys; on the first floor, there are four 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor includes two bay windows with early 20th-century sash windows in the outer bay on the left, and 12-pane sash windows to the right of a 20th-century doorway, which has single light sashes on either side. There is a round-headed opening in the outer bay on the right that originally provided access to a yard behind, but this has now been blocked with a door set back. Quaker Lodge is notable as the birthplace of Dr. Thomas Young (1773-1829), a renowned scientist and linguist known for his significant contributions to optics and for laying the groundwork for the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Local climate
Quaker Lodge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
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