The Elms and Little Elms is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Elms and Little Elms

WRENN ID
slow-stronghold-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1961
Type
House
Address
The Elms and Little Elms, Market Place, Ilchester, BA22 8NQ
OS grid reference
ST 521 227
Coordinates
51.002, -2.68303
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Elms and Little Elms are a pair of houses, originally one, located at the end of a row in Market Place. They date from the 18th century and feature a facade made of ham stone ashlar, with lias stone coursed rubble on the sides and rear. The houses have a Welsh slate roof that sits between coped gables and behind a front parapet, with brick chimney stacks at each end.

The buildings are two storeys high and consist of five bays. They have a plinth, plain end pilasters, a small cornice, and a plain parapet with simple coping. The windows are 12-pane sash types set in plain openings with head moulds above. In the lower bay 3, there is a six-panel door with glazed toplights in a recess, flanked by attached Tuscan columns on a plinth, topped with an entablature that includes guttae and metopes, and an open pediment. In the lower bay 5, the window is slightly misaligned to the left, and to the right is a similar door in a recess, featuring an architrave and a simpler open pediment hood supported by console brackets. The interiors have not been seen.

Local climate

The Elms and Little Elms receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 63% 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
  • 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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