No 2, and Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
No 2, and Front Boundary Railings
- WRENN ID
- western-finial-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- No 2, and Front Boundary Railings, South Street, Montacute
- OS grid reference
- ST 498 168
- Coordinates
- 50.94918, -2.71537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 is a detached house from the early 19th century, constructed of Ham stone ashlar with a half-hipped Welsh slate roof between coped gables and brick chimney stacks. The building has a double-roof plan, is two storeys high with attics, and features two bays. It has a plinth, cornice, and a shallow plain parapet. The house includes 12-pane sash windows in plain openings. In the lower bay, there is a six-fielded-panelled door set under a rectangular fanlight with diamond panes, also in a plain opening. A circular attic window is located in the south gable. The interior has not been seen.
About 2 meters west of the house, there is a low stone wall with a chamfered plinth and steeply sloped coping stones. This wall has square piers with a frieze band and bell-hip tops, with walls capped by wrought and cast-iron railings featuring taper points on the middle and top rails, and fleur-de-lys finials on arch-braced standards. A matching gate is located between the piers opposite the doorway. This wall and railings enhance the setting of the house, which is one of the few in the village to have a front garden.
Local climate
No 2, 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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