Highfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1974. Town house, offices. 4 related planning applications.
Highfield House
- WRENN ID
- knotted-string-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1974
- Type
- Town house, offices
- Address
- Highfield House, 1, Park Road, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5BT
- OS grid reference
- ST 618 433
- Coordinates
- 51.18775, -2.54717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Highfield House is a town house, now used as offices, built around 1800 for the Allen family. The building features a rendered exterior and a hipped slate roof, with ashlar stacks that are moulded around the base and apex. The symmetrical facade consists of two storeys and five bays, with sash windows that include glazing bars. The central entrance has a semi-circular head door opening, which contains a six-panelled door and a decorated fanlight above. There is a solid-sided porch with a moulded cornice and a blocking course, supported by three-quarter Tuscan columns. To the left, there is a hipped slate roof outshut that connects to a late 19th-century angular bay, linked to the main house by a mid-20th-century glazed passageway.
Local climate
Highfield 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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