The Battlements is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. School, house.
The Battlements
- WRENN ID
- swift-ledge-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- The Battlements, A358, Thornfalcon
- OS grid reference
- ST 276 237
- Coordinates
- 51.00831, -3.03296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Battlements is a building that was originally a school and is now a house. It was constructed by the Chisholm-Batten family in the early to mid-19th century and was enlarged in the late 19th century. The exterior is roughcast over rubble with slate roofs behind crenellations and parapets, and there are brick stacks at the rear.
The building has a double pile plan with an addition on the right side and is designed in a castellated picturesque style. It is two storeys high and features a façade with a 2:1:2 bay arrangement. The first gabled centre bay projects forward and is adorned with pinnacles and a coat of arms at the apex. On the first floor, the left side has two many-paned pointed arch casements beneath a hoodmould, the centre has a 12-pane sash window also under a hoodmould, and the right side has two 4-pane sash windows under a single hoodmould.
On the ground floor, the left side features two pointed arch casements under a hoodmould, while the right side has a 4-light mullioned window under a hoodmould. The centre of the ground floor has a crenellated projecting doorcase with a semi-circular arched opening. There are also two blind window openings under hoodmoulds on the left end bay, and beneath the lower crenellated roof line on the left, there are two pointed arch casements under a hoodmould, accompanied by a similar projecting crenellated doorcase with a semi-circular arched head door. The layout suggests there were probably separate entrances for boys and girls.
Local climate
The Battlements receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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