Tavens is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Semi-detached house. 1 related planning application.
Tavens
- WRENN ID
- final-joist-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Semi-detached house
- Address
- Tavens, High Street, Carhampton, TA24 6ND
- OS grid reference
- ST 007 425
- Coordinates
- 51.17391, -3.42161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tavens is a semi-detached house dating from the late 18th to early 19th century, possibly incorporating part of an earlier dwelling. The building is rendered over rubble and features pilaster quoin strips, a shallow pitch slate roof, and brick stacks at the right gable end. The plan consists of a double pile with a wing at the rear. It stands two storeys high and has three bays, with 16-pane sash windows. The central entrance is a raised and fielded 6-panel door with two inserted lights, topped by a slate pentice hood porch. On the right return gable end, there is an early 19th-century leaded iron 2-light casement window on the first floor, and another 2-light casement window on the ground floor in the gable end to the rear, which has a lean-to addition beyond.
Local climate
Tavens sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- 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
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