Durstons and attached walls to south is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. House. 2 related planning applications.

Durstons and attached walls to south

WRENN ID
other-bailey-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1976
Type
House
Address
Durstons and attached walls to south, 10, High Street, Chard, Chard Town, TA20 1QB
OS grid reference
ST 319 085
Coordinates
50.87269, -2.96821
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Durstons is a mid-19th century house located on the north side of High Street in Chard. The building features painted roughcast walls and a hipped slate roof at the front, which has wide projecting eaves supported by brackets and tall brick chimney stacks. The house has a U-shaped plan, with the right rear wing likely enlarged in the late 19th century. It stands two storeys high and has a three-window range. The front includes a painted stone classical-style porch, while the ground floor windows retain their original 6/6-pane sashes, and the first floor has late 19th-century horned 4/4-pane sashes.

Inside, there is an open-well staircase with bracket ends, stick balusters, and a wreathed handrail leading to a landing that features a sash window set in a Tudor-style arch, next to a round-arched niche in the rear wall. The first-floor left front room contains an off-centre white marble fireplace.

Additionally, there is a rubblestone forecourt wall with ashlar coping as a subsidiary feature.

Local climate

Durstons and attached walls to south receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% 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 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2011
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • 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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