The Narrow House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. House.
The Narrow House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-jamb-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Narrow House, Broad Street, Somerton, TA11 7NH
- OS grid reference
- ST 491 286
- Coordinates
- 51.05456, -2.7273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Narrow House is an end-of-row house from the earlier 18th century. It is built from local lias stone ashlar with Ham stone dressings and has a plain clay tile roof that features coped gables positioned at right angles to the street. A brick chimney stack is located on the north side. The house has two storeys with an attic and presents a gable end to the street. Architectural details include a plinth, a band course, a cornice, and a pedimented gable.
On the ground floor, there are three sash windows with 8, 12, and 8 panes, all set in architraved surrounds. The central window is positioned under a pedimented hood supported by console brackets and was formerly a doorway. The first floor has two matching 8-pane windows, while the attic features a semi-circular arched window with impost and keystones that breaks into the gable pediment. The south return elevation has three bays with plainer keystoned surrounds for the 12-pane sash windows, some of which still have thick glazing bars. A 20th-century entrance door is located in the first bay, topped by a plain rectangular fanlight. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Narrow House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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