The Old Beams is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House.
The Old Beams
- WRENN ID
- sacred-quartz-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Beams, East Street, Drayton
- OS grid reference
- ST 406 247
- Coordinates
- 51.019, -2.848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Beams is a house attached to The Brick House, dating from the 15th century and 17th century, with alterations made in the mid-20th century. It features a rubble structure with a Flemish bond brick front and a double-Roman tile roof, topped with a brick stack. Originally an open-hall house, it has since been floored. The building is two storeys high with two bays, showcasing 20th-century casements with two and three lights, except for a four-light wooden-mullioned window on the ground floor, which has a carved surround and a label above. The door opening is located to the left, leading into a 20th-century lean-to porch with a modern door. Inside, there is a cruck roof, a former smoking chamber, and chamfered and stopped ceiling beams.
Local climate
The Old Beams receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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