Somerset House, Including Gatepiers and Wall Along Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.

Somerset House, Including Gatepiers and Wall Along Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1974
Type
House
Address
Somerset House, Including Gatepiers and Wall Along Street, Magdalene Street, Glastonbury, BA6 9EJ
OS grid reference
ST 498 387
Coordinates
51.14597, -2.71819
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Somerset House, located on Magdalene Street, is an early to mid-19th century building set back in a garden. It is two storeys high and constructed of stucco with freestone pilasters, a moulded cornice, and a parapet. The building features a stringcourse and a plinth, with five windows that have stone architraves and cornices on the ground floor. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and there is one later stone bay. A stone Tuscan porch with a fanlight that has tracery leads to double half-glazed doors. The entrance to the garden is flanked by two gatepiers, approximately 10 feet tall, which have moulded tops and are likely contemporary with the house. The entrance is completed with double wrought-iron gates featuring an urn motif, and there are sections of low wall with steeply sloping tops on each side, along with an additional pier to the left. Somerset House and Priory House together form a group.

Local climate

Somerset House, Including Gatepiers and Wall Along Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2008
  • 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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