Reed House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House, post office. 3 related planning applications.
Reed House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-cobalt-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, post office
- Address
- Reed House, Bowden Hill, Chilcompton, BA3 4EN
- OS grid reference
- ST 648 517
- Coordinates
- 51.26391, -2.50488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Reed House, originally listed as the Post Office, is a house that now serves as both a residence and a post office. It dates from the mid-18th century and features a rendered exterior with freestone dressings, alternating chamfered quoins, a moulded cornice, and a parapet with coping. The roof is slate, and there are brick stacks. The building has a symmetrical classical frontage, standing two storeys high with six bays. It includes a pair of 12-pane sash windows set in moulded architraves, along with eight 20th-century four-pane casements also in architraves. The central door opening is topped by a triangular pediment and flanked by pilasters, featuring a six-panelled door. The interior has been altered, but some original wooden cornice remains on the ground floor ceiling.
Local climate
Reed House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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