No 1 and Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. House.

No 1 and Front Boundary Railings

WRENN ID
half-string-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 April 1987
Type
House
Address
No 1 and Front Boundary Railings, Blind Lane, Martock
OS grid reference
ST 456 180
Coordinates
50.95915, -2.77508
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 1 is a semi-detached house located on Blind Lane in Bower Hinton, dating from the early 19th century. It is built from cut and squared ham stone and features a plain clay tiled roof with a stepped coped gable at the east end, continuing to the west. The house has two storeys and three bays, with sash windows that have 20 panes in plain openings beneath keystoned lintels. There is a late 20th-century stone and tiled enclosed porch matching the house, located at the lower bay 2, which includes a six-panel door. An extension is present at the north-east corner, also two storeys, with a triple roll clay tile roof that aligns with the main ridge line. Although the interior has not been seen, approximately 2.5 meters south of the house, there are front boundary railings set on a low stone wall. These railings are about 1 meter high and feature cast-iron spear derivative tops, with no gate, contributing to the overall setting of the house.

Local climate

No 1 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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