Red Cross Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Office, community center.
Red Cross Centre
- WRENN ID
- upper-porch-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Office, community center
- Address
- Red Cross Centre, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 611 432
- Coordinates
- 51.1873, -2.55681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Cross Centre, originally an estate office, dates from around 1900 and is built from uncoursed Doulting stone with a slate hipped roof. It features a moulded eaves cornice and a brick stack on the left side, showcasing a Georgian revival style. The building is single storey with four bays of flush mounted sash windows that include glazing bars.
The central doorway is framed by a broad moulded architrave and includes a two-panelled door with a fanlight above, also featuring glazing bars. Panelled pilasters flank the doorway, and elaborately carved brackets support an open semi-circular pediment. This pediment displays a carved wooden panel featuring raised Prince of Wales feathers and the inscription "Ich Dien" at its center. Additionally, there are decorated cast iron rainwater heads on either side, again featuring the Prince of Wales feathers and the same inscription. To the right, there is a four-window return.
Local climate
Red Cross Centre receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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