Public Weighbridge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. Weighbridge.
Public Weighbridge
- WRENN ID
- eastward-glass-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Weighbridge
- Address
- Public Weighbridge, Market Place, Ilchester
- OS grid reference
- ST 521 227
- Coordinates
- 51.00171, -2.68271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The public weighbridge, located in Market Place, was built between 1870 and 1880. It features cast and wrought iron machinery housed in an early 20th-century timber shed. The weighbridge includes standard weighing plates set into the road, measuring approximately 2.5 by 6 metres overall. The balance and machinery are situated within a low timber-clad shed that has vertical painted boarding and a felted monopitch roof. There is an 8-pane long low window along the southeast side and a very low door on the west side. The machinery was supplied by E and A Ashworth Ltd., based in Dewsbury and London. The weighbridge was installed shortly after 1870 by Ilchester Corporation, which relied on it and town hall lettings for most of its income by 1888. It appears to be currently operated by a private firm.
Local climate
Public Weighbridge 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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