Dial House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Dial House
- WRENN ID
- upper-porch-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dial House, 24, Manor Road, Catcott, TA7 9HD
- OS grid reference
- ST 394 394
- Coordinates
- 51.15141, -2.86764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dial House is a house dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of painted rubble and features a triple-Roman tile roof that is hipped to the right, with a coped verge and a brick and an ashlar stack with a moulded cap. The building has an L-plan layout, originally an open hall house that was later floored, with a wing added at right angles to the rear.
The house is two storeys high and consists of four bays. The windows include one, two, and three-light casements with glazing bars, except for a moulded stone-mullioned window on the left side of the ground floor, which has leaded lights. The door is located in the third bay and is sheltered by a triple-Roman tiled porch, with a mullioned window on each side and paired ribbed doors.
Inside, there are notable features such as two framed ceilings and two fireplaces with massive wooden brassumers. One fireplace has a stone surround with a 4-centred head and moulded jambs, with spandrels carved with foliage and incised initials: "I D". The door opening has a wooden framed shouldered architrave. A significant portion of the medieval roof remains, showing evidence of smoke blackening.
Local climate
Dial House receives an average of 820 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- 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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