Tor Guest House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. House.
Tor Guest House
- WRENN ID
- gilded-postern-fen
- 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
- Tor Guest House, 20, Tor Street, Wells
- OS grid reference
- ST 553 458
- Coordinates
- 51.21053, -2.64057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tor Guest House is a detached house dating from the early 18th century, which was remodelled in the late 19th century. The building is rendered and colourwashed, topped with a Welsh slate roof that features coped gables and brick end chimney stacks. It has a double-depth plan.
The exterior consists of three storeys and three bays. There is a plinth and plain late 19th-century plate-glass sash windows, which are paired in the outer bays and set in plain surrounds. The entrance door, located in the centre bay, is a two-panel design within a simple frame, topped by an ornate timber and plaster shell hood supported by brackets. On the south gable, there is a single-storey extension with a hipped lean-to roof covered in triple-roll clay tiles, which is set behind a parapet. This extension features a matching double sash window on the front elevation. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Tor Guest House 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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