Wistaria Villa is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. A C19 Villa.

Wistaria Villa

WRENN ID
sharp-keystone-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1984
Type
Villa
Address
Wistaria Villa, Great Elm
OS grid reference
ST 749 494
Coordinates
51.24344, -2.3605
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wistaria Villa is an early 19th-century house featuring an ashlar stone front and a hipped slate roof with two ashlar chimneys. The building has a symmetrical facade, standing two stories tall with three bays. It includes 16-pane sash windows set in plain stone surrounds. The central entrance is framed by a semi-circular stone surround that highlights the imposts and keystone, leading to a four-panelled door topped by a fanlight with decorative glazing bars. There is a 20th-century gabled wooden porch with glazed side panels. To the left, there is a single-storey 20th-century glazed extension.

Local climate

Wistaria Villa receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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