No 1 and East Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. House.

No 1 and East Boundary Railings

WRENN ID
worn-mortar-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 April 1987
Type
House
Address
No 1 and East Boundary Railings, Martock
OS grid reference
ST 457 188
Coordinates
50.96671, -2.77347
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 1 Hurst is a detached house built in the early 19th century, likely incorporating earlier work. It features ham stone ashlar and has a hipped Welsh slate roof with a central brick chimney stack and a wide eaves overhang. Designed in a villa style, the house is two storeys high with a layout of three bays by two bays. The south entrance elevation, which is at right angles to the road, has three bays and includes a plinth, a band course, corner pilasters, and bracketted eaves. The 16-pane sash windows are set in plain openings with slightly segmental-arched heads. There is an early 20th-century timber, glass, and slate porch at the lower bay two.

The east elevation consists of two bays that match the south elevation, followed by a long two-storey extension of four bays extending northwards. This extension has a double Roman clay-tiled roof that is set lower than the main house. The walls are partly ashlar and partly cut and squared work. The first bay features a cambered-arched doorway with a 20th-century part-glazed door, and above it, to the right and at both levels of bay two, are small-pane casement windows. Bays three and four are wider, with bay three having a pair of tall narrow stable-type doors, while bay four has wide double doors.

About three metres east of the house, along the frontage and extending southwards for approximately 25 metres, there is a low stone wall topped with railings that have alternate hoops and cast arrowheads, standing about one metre high. A gate opposite the porch allows access, and the wall returns in stone at each end, contributing to the setting of the house. The premises are associated with Yandle and Sons Ltd., timber merchants, who were established here by 1906.

Local climate

No 1 and East Boundary Railings receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 62% 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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