Prospect House and Forecourt Wall with Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. House. 1 related planning application.
Prospect House and Forecourt Wall with Railings
- WRENN ID
- open-tracery-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Prospect House and Forecourt Wall with Railings, Kilmersdon, BA3 5TN
- OS grid reference
- ST 683 521
- Coordinates
- 51.26769, -2.45538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prospect House is a late 18th-century house situated in Kilmersdon. The front elevation is constructed of ashlar, with returns of coursed and squared rubble, featuring alternating rusticated quoins, a first-floor band, a cornice band, and a parapet with coping. The roof is tiled, with end stacks finished in ashlar and featuring moulded caps.
The house is symmetrical, with three storeys and three bays. It has sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded architraves; the ground-floor windows are paired, with a central stone mullion. The central door opening has a semi-circular head, pilasters, an emphasised key, and an open stone pediment supported by brackets. The door itself is six-panelled, and includes a fanlight with radiating glazing bars.
A railed forecourt is retained by a wall constructed of coursed and squared rubble.
Local climate
Prospect House and Forecourt Wall with Railings receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings