Hobbswell, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers and Garden Room is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Hobbswell, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers and Garden Room
- WRENN ID
- stony-moat-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hobbswell, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers and Garden Room, Kent Street, Cheddar, BS27 3LG
- OS grid reference
- ST 456 540
- Coordinates
- 51.28305, -2.7808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hobbswell is an early 19th-century house located on the north side of Kent Street in Cheddar. The building features roughcast walls, wide bracketed eaves, a slate roof, and brick stacks. It has a symmetrical design with two storeys and three bays. The first floor includes 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 8-pane French windows with marginal lights. The central entrance has a 10-panel led door, with the top seven panels glazed and a fanlight above featuring radiating glazing bars.
To the left, there is a single-storey outshut that is set back, which has a parapet with coping and a pair of French windows that match the main style. To the right, there is another single-storey outshut with a similar design, featuring a pair of French windows and a window on each side. Inside, the house retains original features, including a well-type staircase with a moulded handrail supported by stick balusters and moulded tread brackets. The ground floor has six-panelled doors in fluted surrounds, and the hall boasts a decorative plaster cornice and a ceiling centre.
The forecourt wall is capped with random tufa and includes a pair of gate piers in a matching style on the left, also topped with tufa caps, and a pair of decorative wrought iron gates. The wall incorporates a small rubble garden room at its right end.
Local climate
Hobbswell, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers and Garden Room receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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