Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- fossil-sill-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock House, Halse
- OS grid reference
- ST 140 280
- Coordinates
- 51.04518, -3.22777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a house dating from the early 19th century, likely built on the footprint of an earlier dwelling. The exterior is pebble-dashed with prominent quoin strips and a hipped slate roof, featuring an external stack on the left side. The house is two storeys high and three bays wide, with 16-pane sash windows set in slightly raised, lugged, cement surrounds. A centrally positioned door is sheltered by a Tuscan porch with a split pediment and panelled reveals. The porch features a glazed fanlight, a 19th-century medieval-style studded door, a neo-classical lion mask, and a ring knocker. The interior of the building has not been inspected.
Local climate
Rock House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- 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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