Hurst House and Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House. 2 related planning applications.
Hurst House and Front Boundary Railings
- WRENN ID
- empty-jade-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hurst House and Front Boundary Railings, Martock, TA12 6JU
- OS grid reference
- ST 458 188
- Coordinates
- 50.96661, -2.77315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hurst House is a detached house dating from the 18th century, with a 19th-century extension. The front is made of Ham stone ashlar, while the sides and rear are constructed from coursed squared rubble. The roof features plain clay tiles with an undulating profile over stone slate base courses, and it has coped gables with brick chimney stacks at the ends and in the middle.
The house is two storeys high and has five bays. It features plain mullioned windows set in simple architraves; most are three-light, except for the upper window in bay three, which is two-light, and the lower bay three has a part-glazed 19th-century door set in an architrave. This door is sheltered by an open stone porch supported by Tuscan columns and pilasters, topped with a full plain entablature and a flat roof.
There is a single-storey extension against the north gable, built of brick in Flemish bond with a hipped Welsh slate roof. This extension has composite plain sash windows in plain toothed Ham stone surrounds and a blocked doorway to the right. The interior has not been seen.
Approximately three metres west of the house, there are cast iron railings with cast bud finials set on a low stone wall, featuring curved braces and a matching gate opposite the doorway. These railings contribute to the setting of the house and enhance the streetscape.
Local climate
Hurst House and Front Boundary Railings receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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