Lower Southtown House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. House.

Lower Southtown House

WRENN ID
dark-bonework-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1985
Type
House
Address
Lower Southtown House, Southtown Lane, West Pennard
OS grid reference
ST 552 380
Coordinates
51.1402, -2.64058
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Southtown House is an early 19th-century house constructed of Flemish bond red brick, featuring a hipped slate roof with wide eaves and two brick stacks. The building stands two storeys high and has a three-to-one bay arrangement, with 20-pane sash windows that have rubbed brick voussoirs. The door is centrally located within the left three bays and has a semi-circular headed surround with rubbed brick voussoirs, a three-panelled door, and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. A "tent" canopy verandah is present on the ground floor, supported by fluted cast-iron columns with decorative scrollwork. Inside, there is a coeval staircase with stick balusters, six-panelled doors, and window shutters on the ground floor.

Local climate

Lower Southtown House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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