The Pond House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1977. A C18 Cottage.
The Pond House
- WRENN ID
- veiled-pavement-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Pond House, the Cross, Henstridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 723 198
- Coordinates
- 50.97716, -2.39498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pond House is a detached cottage, likely built in the 18th century. It features local stone coursed rubble, with the main block roughcast and colourwashed. The roof is made of Welsh slate with plain gables, and there are plain clay tiles on the rear. The building has stone and brick chimney stacks and is designed in a 'U'-plan. The east front has two storeys and consists of two bays. It includes horizontal bar steel casement windows, with the upper pair set in segmental arched openings. The central door is of a 20th-century design and is sheltered by a timber porch hood with an open dentilled pediment supported by elaborate brackets. The interior has not been seen, but a previous listing mentions inglenook fireplaces.
Local climate
The Pond House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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