Road Menders is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Road Menders
- WRENN ID
- grim-gravel-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Road Menders, Town Barton, Norton St. Philip, BA2 7LN
- OS grid reference
- ST 774 559
- Coordinates
- 51.30181, -2.32414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Road Menders is a pair of cottages that have been converted into a single unit, dating from the mid-18th century. The building is constructed of stucco and features a double Roman clay tile roof with coped gables and brick chimney stacks at either end. It is two stories high and has a three-window front with an off-centre entrance. The entrance is marked by a 20th-century vertical boarded door beneath a 20th-century porch. The windows are 16-pane sash windows set in plain stone surrounds.
Local climate
Road Menders receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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