Wellmans and Byron House and Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Wellmans and Byron House and Front Boundary Railings
- WRENN ID
- heavy-stronghold-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wellmans and Byron House and Front Boundary Railings, East Street, Martock, TA12 6NF
- OS grid reference
- ST 464 192
- Coordinates
- 50.97055, -2.76386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wellmans and Byron House, originally a single farmhouse, now consists of two cottages dating from the 17th century. The building is constructed from ham stone ashlar and features plain clay tiles over stone slate base courses, with stepped coped gables and brick chimney stacks at both ends and in the middle. It is two storeys high and has four bays. The windows are hollow chamfer mullioned, with the upper windows having separate labels while the lower ones are paired under common labels, mostly two-light. The windows of Wellmans House are mostly rectangular leaded, while those of Byron House are diamond leaded. Between the first and second bays, there is a 19th-century door with a rectangular fanlight in a plain recess. Between the third and fourth bays, there is a cambered arched doorway with a stepped label above, featuring a boarded and studded door. On the west gable, there are two two-light mullioned windows without labels, and there is an outshut at the rear of Byron House.
About four metres north of both houses, there are wrought iron railings set on low stone walls, featuring alternate small loops and cast iron arrow points, with 20th-century gates opposite both doors and curved returns at both ends. These railings enhance the setting of the houses and contribute to the streetscape.
Local climate
Wellmans and Byron House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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