Laburnum House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. A C18 House.
Laburnum House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-sandstone-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laburnum House, the Green, High Ham
- OS grid reference
- ST 426 310
- Coordinates
- 51.07566, -2.8207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laburnum House is a house that formerly served as a shop and Post Office, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed from local lias stone and rendered, featuring a triple roll clay tile roof with stepped coped gables and rendered end chimney stacks. The building stands two storeys high and has three bays. It has sash windows with 12 panes in plain openings. The lower bay includes a recessed doorway with a 20th-century wrought iron gate. On the west gable, there are two projecting flat-roofed shop windows with a door between them, and a 12-pane sash window above. There is an outshut at the rear. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Laburnum House 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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