Garston House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Cottage.
Garston House
- WRENN ID
- long-cobalt-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Garston House, Gay Street, Mells, BA11 3PT
- OS grid reference
- ST 725 491
- Coordinates
- 51.24064, -2.39399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garston House is a cottage dating from the 17th century, constructed of limewashed Doulting rubble with thatched roofs and uneven eaves height. The facade is nearly symmetrical and features a cross passage plan. The building is one storey with an attic and has two bays. On the left side, there are 19th-century casement windows, while the right side has ovolo moulded stone mullioned windows with two and three lights; the upper windows are set beneath eyebrow arches. The central door opening contains a mid-19th-century four-panelled door, topped by a flat wooden hood supported on moulded stone brackets.
Local climate
Garston House 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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