Ford House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Ford House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-finial-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ford House, Ford Street, Wellington Without
- OS grid reference
- ST 152 186
- Coordinates
- 50.96104, -3.2084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford House is a house built around 1840. It features a rendered exterior that is grooved to resemble ashlar stone, with pilaster quoins and a steeply pitched roof covered in bitumen and slate. The eaves overhang, supported by paired console brackets, and there are large roughcast stacks at the gable ends. The building has a double pile plan facing south, with a service wing attached to the west and a lean-to addition at the east gable end.
The house is two storeys high with three bays, featuring 20-pane sash windows. Above the central half-glazed door, which has a rectangular light, there is a 12-pane sash window. The entrance is framed by a flat-roofed wooden columnar porch. To the left, there is a single storey, two-bay service wing that includes a semi-circular projection, likely a bread oven. The right side of the house has 9 and 12-pane sash windows above a random rubble wall, with a slate-roofed lean-to addition.
Local climate
Ford House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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