Mountroy and Attached Forecourt Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House. 3 related planning applications.

Mountroy and Attached Forecourt Railings

WRENN ID
sacred-basalt-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1953
Type
House
Address
Mountroy and Attached Forecourt Railings, 19, New Street, Wells, BA5 2LD
OS grid reference
ST 549 461
Coordinates
51.21237, -2.64673
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mountroy is a house dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, also known as The Judge's Lodgings. It is built on a rubble base with rendered walls, featuring a false ashlar lining, stone dressings, and a Welsh slate double Mansard roof behind Dutch curve coped gables. The building has ashlar chimney stacks.

The house is two storeys with attics, originally five bays wide, with flanking two- and three-bay extensions. Architectural details include a plinth, rusticated quoins, a cornice, and a plain parapet. It has plain sash windows set in plain architraves. A 20th-century door is located in the centre bay within a plain architrave, with an “anse-de-panier” stone hood supported by brackets above it. Four flat-roofed dormers with 9-pane sash windows are set behind the parapet. The left-hand extension lacks a cornice and parapet but has coped gables to a double roof. The right-hand extension features a cornice, parapet, and a hipped roof at a right angle to the main roof. The ground floor of the right-hand extension has a central composite window of three plain sashes, with the central sash being wider. The interior of the property was not inspected.

The front of the building features a basement area with five steps leading up to a bridge providing access to the front door, flanked by early 19th-century railings. The property is located at the northern limit of medieval development in Wells.

Local climate

Mountroy and Attached Forecourt Railings receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 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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