Brook House, and Front Boundary Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Semi-detached house. 1 related planning application.
Brook House, and Front Boundary Walls
- WRENN ID
- south-crypt-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- Semi-detached house
- Address
- Brook House, and Front Boundary Walls, Little Street, Norton Sub Hamdon, TA14 6SR
- OS grid reference
- ST 470 158
- Coordinates
- 50.93929, -2.75497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is a semi-detached house dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of ham stone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof of a shallow pitch, featuring stepped coped gables and stone and brick chimney stacks. The house has two storeys and three bays. The first bay contains three-light, hollow-chamfered mullioned windows recessed within chamfered surrounds, each with a label. Bays two and three have 16-pane sash windows in plain openings. A projecting porch is situated between bays one and two; it is open with semi-circular arches to the front and sides, supported by panelled piers with imposts, and featuring an architrave and console keystone to the arch, a cornice mould, and a step to a flat roof. Further mullioned windows are present in the north gable. The interior has not been inspected.
An ashlar boundary wall, approximately one metre high with thin coping, surrounds the front garden and is attached to the adjacent building to the south (which is not part of this listing). It has upsweeps to square gatepiers topped with pyramids, framing 20th-century iron gates. The wall continues around the north boundary, with some sections stepped up approximately 500mm, and features a curved corner. The wall enhances the setting of the house and contributes to the character of the streetscene at a significant junction in the village centre.
Local climate
Brook House, and Front Boundary Walls receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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