Garston House Including Gates and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1949. House. 4 related planning applications.

Garston House Including Gates and Railings

WRENN ID
frozen-gargoyle-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 July 1949
Type
House
Address
Garston House Including Gates and Railings, Portway, Frome, BA11 1PZ
OS grid reference
ST 779 477
Coordinates
51.22856, -2.3165
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Garston House, built in 1797, is set back from the road and features a forecourt. The front is rendered and includes a cornice supported by brackets, a parapet, a string course at the second floor, and rusticated quoins and plinth. The building has a slate roof with three chimneys, two of which have modillion capping. It stands three storeys tall, with simpler single-storey wings that have a moulded cornice, and a three-storey wing set back to the right. The central portion has three windows on the second floor and five on the first floor, with the outer windows paired and one pair on each side of the central door at ground level. The windows are fitted with glazing bar sashes in architraves. The original panelled door features a cross pattern below and two cusp-headed central panels, topped by a Tuscan portico. The property is enclosed by low railings and has two pairs of gates, one leading to Garsdale and the other to Portway. Inside, the east ground floor room showcases reeded Greek Doric columns and an elaborately decorated ceiling cornice. There is a contemporary staircase with a hall arch, while the upper floors consist of a complex arrangement of small rooms.

Local climate

Garston House Including Gates and Railings receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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