Drake House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. House. 5 related planning applications.
Drake House
- WRENN ID
- riven-plaster-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Drake House, Fore Street, Othery, TA7 0QS
- OS grid reference
- ST 384 316
- Coordinates
- 51.08073, -2.88054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drake House is an 18th-century house located on the east side of Fore Street in Othery. The building features rough-plastered walls, with a bay to the right made of colourwashed brick. It has a hipped thatched roof and brick stacks. The house is two storeys tall and has a three-bay front with one additional bay. The windows are three-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. The entrance is located in the second bay and consists of a half-glazed door with a trellis porch.
Local climate
Drake House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 5 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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