Xanadu is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Xanadu
- WRENN ID
- lesser-spindle-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Xanadu, 1, St Mary's Street, Nether Stowey, TA5 1LN
- OS grid reference
- ST 192 397
- Coordinates
- 51.15118, -3.15647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century house located on the north side of St Mary’s Street in Nether Stowey. The house is built of random rubble, with a colourwashed and rendered front facade. It has a double Roman tile roof with a crested ridge and a brick stack at the right end. The symmetrical facade has two storeys and three bays, featuring 12-pane sash windows on the first floor and 16-pane sash windows on the ground floor. A central door opening contains a six-panelled door, with the top two panels glazed.
Local climate
Xanadu receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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