Ford House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. House. 6 related planning applications.
Ford House
- WRENN ID
- under-lancet-ochre
- 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
- Ford House, Chewton Mendip, BA3 4PD
- OS grid reference
- ST 592 535
- Coordinates
- 51.27971, -2.58568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford House is an early 19th-century house situated in Chewton Mendip. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with dressed alternating quoins, and has coped verges and a slate roof, with ashlar stacks. The house is two storeys high and has three bays. It features stone mullioned windows, with two and three lights per window. A central door opening is present, with a six-panelled door, where the top four panels are glazed, sheltered by a slab hood resting on ornamental stone brackets.
Local climate
Ford 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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