The Corner House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. House.
The Corner House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-gravel-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Corner House, 21, High Street, Rode
- OS grid reference
- ST 803 538
- Coordinates
- 51.28331, -2.28282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Corner House is a house dating from the mid-18th century, located at the junction of High Street and Lower Street. The building features coursed rubble stonework with a coped gable on the front, a double-Roman tile roof, and two brick chimneys, one of which rises from the gable. It stands three storeys tall and has two bays. The first and second floors each have 12-pane sash windows set in bolection moulded stone architraves, while the centre of the gable features a small oval opening in moulded stone surrounds.
On the ground floor, there is a central door opening that leads into an early 19th-century single-storey flat-roofed canted bay, which has a six-panelled door with a transom light above it. There are also 20-pane shop windows on either side of the door. The right side of the building facing High Street has two stone-mullioned windows with two lights, also in bolection moulded stone surrounds, and a small 19th-century casement window with glazing bars on the ground floor. The left side of the building features a door opening in an ogee-moulded stone surround, topped with a segmental stone hood supported by cut stone brackets, leading to a 20th-century half-glazed door.
Local climate
The Corner House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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