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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 15 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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