Chancery House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House, shop.
Chancery House
- WRENN ID
- pale-plinth-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Chancery House, Market Place, Somerton
- OS grid reference
- ST 490 285
- Coordinates
- 51.05399, -2.72779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chancery House is a house and shop dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of local stone with brick dressings and was formerly rendered. The building features a shallow pitch Welsh slate roof and brick chimney stacks. It is two stories high with three bays. The windows are sash windows with 16 panes, set in plain brick dressed openings that have gauged brick flat arched heads. The later 19th-century shopfront includes a recessed doorway on the right side of the first bay, while the second bay has a six-panelled door in a semi-circular arched recess, complete with plain dressings and a radial glazed fanlight. The interior has not been seen. Chancery House was built at the same time as the house next door to the west, which still retains its rendering.
Local climate
Chancery House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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