The Mount is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. A Post-Medieval House.

The Mount

WRENN ID
eternal-jamb-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1984
Type
House
Period
Post-Medieval
Address
The Mount, Halse
OS grid reference
ST 138 277
Coordinates
51.04225, -3.22976
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mount is an 18th-century house located in Halse. It is constructed of render with a slate roof and features brick stacks with alternate projecting courses. The building has a "T"-plan layout, with the side elevation facing the road to the east. It is two storeys high and has a long three-bay extension. The windows are 16-pane sash windows, and the entrance is on the extreme left, featuring a wooden trellis porch with a lean-to roof and a six-panel door. The left return, or south front, includes a single-storey decorative wooden verandah.

Local climate

The Mount receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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