Thornfalcon House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. House. 9 related planning applications.
Thornfalcon House
- WRENN ID
- buried-gallery-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thornfalcon House, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- ST 282 239
- Coordinates
- 51.01003, -3.02364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thornfalcon House is a house dating from the early 19th century, possibly incorporating parts of an earlier dwelling. It features roughcast over rubble, with one bay of the right return exposed. The building has shallow pitched hipped slate roofs, a renewed moulded cornice, two central brick stacks, and a brick stack at the rear. The house is designed in a T-plan, south-facing layout with two cells and a cross passage, and a stairway located in the hall behind. There is a long service wing that likely represents an earlier dwelling that has been refronted and reconstructed.
The north front of the house is two storeys high and has three bays, with the central bay breaking forward and featuring pilaster quoins linked below the cornice. The first floor has a 9-pane sash window, while the ground floor has long 12-pane sash windows that reach to the ground. The central entrance has a rusticated Ham stone door surround with a semicircular headed opening, which contains 20th-century double doors with inserted lights and a wooden fanlight. The left return has a 1:3:1 bay arrangement, with a 9-pane sash window in the end bay on the right, and other openings that are depressed pointed arches, including 4-light casements and pointed arch lights. The end bay on the left has a lower independently roofed section. The irregular placement of windows in the central block suggests the presence of an earlier dwelling. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Thornfalcon House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 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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