5, Leg Square is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1974. Town house. 1 related planning application.
5, Leg Square
- WRENN ID
- vacant-threshold-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1974
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- 5, Leg Square, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5LL
- OS grid reference
- ST 620 437
- Coordinates
- 51.19157, -2.54398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Leg Square is a town house, part of a row of three, built around 1750. It features a roughcast exterior and a slate roof with a brick stack at one end. The building has a symmetrical Georgian facade with three bays, two storeys, and an attic. The central doorway is framed by a chamfered stone architrave and topped with a triangular pediment supported by moulded brackets. The front door is a Victorian design with four panels. On either side of the door, there are tall 12-light flush-mounted sash windows. The first floor has a central 12-light sash window, with wider 16-light sash windows on either side, all of which are also flush-mounted.
Local climate
5, Leg Square receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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