Rowden House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1983. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
Rowden House
- WRENN ID
- distant-soffit-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1983
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Rowden House, Vallis Road, Frome, BA11 3EA
- OS grid reference
- ST 770 483
- Coordinates
- 51.23362, -2.33036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rowden House is a detached early Victorian villa located on Vallis Road. The building stands two storeys high and features three principal bays. It has a hipped slate roof with eaves and is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins, along with a band over the ground floor. A central projecting three-storey porch turret with a pyramidal roof is prominent, featuring a pedimented window on the first floor with a stone balcony and an arched window on the second floor. The ground floor has segment-headed plate glass sash windows, with two on each side of the turret; the inner ones are narrow, while the outer ones are tripartite. The entrance is marked by a heavily moulded archway, and there are ashlar chimneys with moulded capping. Inside, the villa has a tiled lobby and hall, a very good staircase with cast-iron balusters, and heavy ceiling cornices along with period fireplaces.
Local climate
Rowden House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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