Preywater House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
Preywater House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-baluster-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Preywater House, 5, Preywater Road, Wookey, BA5 1LE
- OS grid reference
- ST 515 457
- Coordinates
- 51.20896, -2.69432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Preywater House is a detached house dating from the 18th century, with an earlier wing on the right side. The building is constructed of rubble and features roofs made of pantiles and double Roman tiles, with coped verges and brick stacks. It has an L-shaped plan with one bay on the left and two bays on the right. The ground floor has flush mounted sash windows with exposed sash boxes, consisting of 12 panes, while the first floor has 4-pane sash windows with wooden lintels. The door is located to the left and is a six-panelled door, with the top two panels glazed and a tent-hood supported by scrolly wrought-iron brackets. The earlier portion on the right features 2-light 20th-century casements with glazing bars, located in gabled dormers on the first floor. Inside, there are bread ovens, a fireplace with a broad wooden bressumer, and 18th-century doors.
Local climate
Preywater House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- 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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