Knoll House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1949. House.
Knoll House
- WRENN ID
- south-chapel-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- Knoll House, 9, Gentle Street, Frome
- OS grid reference
- ST 776 478
- Coordinates
- 51.22926, -2.32172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knoll House is an early 19th-century building located at right angles to Gentle Street, with access from both Bath Street and Gentle Street. The front is made of ashlar stone, featuring a channelled ground floor and a decorative band above. The house has three storeys and three windows, with glazing bar sashes and moulded architraves on the first and second floors. A prominent heavy portico supported by two columns features an entablature. There is a slight break in the rubble on the right side and a two-storey modern extension at the rear. The return side has four bays. Inside, the staircase and hall fittings date back to the 1830s.
Local climate
Knoll House 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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