Kingsdon Manor School is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Large detached house. 9 related planning applications.
Kingsdon Manor School
- WRENN ID
- lone-cobble-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Large detached house
- Address
- Kingsdon Manor School, Lodge Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 515 259
- Coordinates
- 51.03074, -2.69168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingsdon Manor School is a large detached house dating to around 1830. It was rebuilt on a new site for C.A. Moody and was possibly designed by William Wilkins. The building is constructed of local lias stone with Ham stone dressings, and has Welsh slate roofs behind parapets and pediments, with stone chimney stacks. The west elevation has nine bays, with bays one, two, eight, and nine projecting as two-storey wings. The design incorporates band courses, cornices, and plain parapets. Windows are sash windows in plain openings with voussoired flat arches. The outer bays have angled bay windows with four, twelve, and four panes, with corner pilasters, a plain entablature, and a flat roof. Upper floors and the central bay on the first floor have nine-pane sashes, and the central bay on the ground floor has a large, studded eight-panel door in an eared architrave, with a two-panel blind section above. A balustraded parapet sits atop the central five bays, and an Ionic portico with a plain entablature and flat roof spans the ground floor between the projecting bays. The other elevations are similar in design. The interior has not been inspected. Modern extensions to the north and north-east are not of significant interest. Since 1948, the building has housed a school for boys with disabilities, operated by the Bristol Education Authority.
Local climate
Kingsdon Manor School receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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