4, Gentle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. House. 5 related planning applications.
4, Gentle Street
- WRENN ID
- muted-tracery-sunrise
- 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
- 4, Gentle Street, Frome, BA11 1JA
- OS grid reference
- ST 776 478
- Coordinates
- 51.2291, -2.32153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 4 Gentle Street is a 17th-century building constructed from rubble, featuring modern pantiles. It has two gables and stands two storeys tall. The façade includes two windows with lead casements that have ogee moulded mullions and restored wooden drip moulds at the gables. The ground floor has paired sash windows with glazing bars, with drip moulds to the right. There is a later door located off-centre to the left, which also has a drip mould above it. To the left of the door, there is an ogee headed footscraper.
Local climate
4, Gentle Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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