No 52 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 52 and Front Boundary Railings

WRENN ID
former-jamb-equinox
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 52 and Front Boundary Railings, Martock
OS grid reference
ST 457 183
Coordinates
50.96202, -2.77454
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 52 is a house located at the end of a row, dating from the early 19th century. It features a facade made of Ham stone ashlar, with squared rubble on the sides and rear. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and has a shallow pitch between stepped coped gables, along with brick chimney stacks at each end. The house is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are sash style with 12 panes in plain openings. In the lower bay, there is a part-glazed door set within a timber lattice porch that has a hipped metal roof. On the north gable, there is a two-light chamfer-mullioned window set in a shallow recess on the first floor. The interior has not been seen.

Approximately 3 metres west of the house, there are front boundary railings atop a low stone wall. These railings feature hammered spearpoints on the middle and top rails, with scroll links and spiked drops on the top rail, and cast acanthus finials on the standards. There is a matching gate opposite the door, and the railings return to each end of the house, contributing to the setting of the house and enhancing the streetscape.

Local climate

No 52 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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