House 10 Metres West of Langport Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. House.

House 10 Metres West of Langport Arms Hotel

WRENN ID
lunar-gravel-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1959
Type
House
OS grid reference
ST 419 267
Coordinates
51.03742, -2.82895
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building, located 10 metres west of the Langport Arms Hotel, is a house that now serves as solicitors' offices. It dates from the mid-18th century and is constructed from local lias stone with cut and squared Ham stone dressings. The roof is a Welsh slate Mansard style, featuring stepped coped gables and rendered brick chimney stacks.

The house has two storeys and consists of six bays. Notable architectural features include a plinth, a band course between the floors, a moulded eaves course, and rusticated quoins. The windows are 12-pane sash types set in architraved surrounds, with the upper windows having segmental arched heads. Some of the window panes are made of crown glass, although the windows in the first and second upper bays have had their glazing bars removed.

A wide eight-panelled door is located in bay six, framed by an architrave with a keystone. Above this door is a stone plaque that reads: 'Walter Bagehot/was born in this house/February 3rd 1826/He died at Herds Hill/March 24th 1877'. Walter Bagehot was a well-known author, economist, and critic, and his monument can be found in the churchyard of the Church of All Saints in Langport.

Local climate

House 10 Metres West of Langport Arms Hotel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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