The Walling Enclosing Patio on South Side of Balsam House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Garden walling.
The Walling Enclosing Patio on South Side of Balsam House
- WRENN ID
- second-corbel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Garden walling
- Address
- The Walling Enclosing Patio on South Side of Balsam House, Common Road, Wincanton, BA9 9HT
- OS grid reference
- ST 716 285
- Coordinates
- 51.05517, -2.40548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall enclosing the patio on the south side of Balsam House is a garden wall dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of local stone rubble and ashlar. The wall extends from the southwest corner of Balsam House and is approximately 2 meters high and 5 meters long. It ends in a stone pier that measures about 350 millimeters square, featuring a plinth, a moulded cap, a step, and a ball finial, with two fielded panels on the south face only. There is a similar pier at the southwest corner of the southeast extension. Connecting these piers is a low cut and squared stone wall, which has an archway in the center made up of similar piers without finials, with the moulded caps linked by a matching semi-circular arch of similar detail. This work may have been done by Nathaniel Ireson, making it one of the few surviving examples of his work on the house from the mid-18th century.
Local climate
The Walling Enclosing Patio on South Side of Balsam House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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