18, Portway is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. House.
18, Portway
- WRENN ID
- endless-vault-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 18, Portway, Frome
- OS grid reference
- ST 780 477
- Coordinates
- 51.22826, -2.31554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 18 on Portway is a late 18th-century building with a rendered exterior and a slate roof. It stands three storeys tall and features two windows with cross-glazed sashes set within architraves. The ground floor has mid-19th century angled bay windows. The entrance has an architrave door opening topped with a pediment supported by guttae brackets, and there is a fluted frieze above. The door itself is a later addition.
Local climate
18, Portway receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 17 transactions since 1996
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