No 1 and Adjacent Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1952. Town house. 3 related planning applications.
No 1 and Adjacent Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall
- WRENN ID
- final-foundation-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1952
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- No 1 and Adjacent Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall, Leg Square, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5LJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 620 437
- Coordinates
- 51.19154, -2.54441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a town house dating from around 1750 in Shepton Mallet. It is constructed with a rendered facade, dressed stone detailing, a pantile roof, and features one brick and one ashlar chimney stack. The building follows a "U" shape. It stands three storeys high with five bays. The central doorway is framed by a plain stone doorcase topped with a triangular pediment supported by three-quarter Tuscan columns, leading to a six-panelled door. Flanking the door are moulded stone architraves, each containing a central mullion and two twelve-light sash windows. The first and second floors are set back, with the projecting ground floor featuring a cornice and parapet. Ramped side walls extend to corner pilasters on either side. Sash windows of a similar design are found on the first and second floors. A moulded and dentilled cornice tops the building, leading to a parapet with moulded coping. The rear facade includes a tripartite window with a semi-circular head over the central light. The property is approached by rusticated gate piers and a low dwarf wall, with remnants of 18th-century iron railings.
Local climate
No 1 and Adjacent Gate Piers and Forecourt Wall 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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