Nos 1, 2 and 3 and Attached Verandah is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1974. Terrace of houses. 11 related planning applications.

Nos 1, 2 and 3 and Attached Verandah

WRENN ID
lapsed-wicket-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 December 1974
Type
Terrace of houses
Address
Nos 1, 2 and 3 and Attached Verandah, Friarn Lawn, Bridgwater, TA6 3LL
OS grid reference
ST 296 368
Coordinates
51.12635, -3.00671
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A terrace of three houses built around 1820 in Bridgwater. The front of numbers 1 and 2 are faced with painted Flemish bond brick, while the rest of the building has a continuous pantile roof with a hipped section to the left. Brick stacks are located in the party walls and at the right gable end, featuring a brick cornice. The houses are one room deep with various rear service rooms and extensions, constructed in a Picturesque Regency style. They are three storeys high with basements. Numbers 1 and 3 were originally two-window ranges, number 2 has a central three-window range, and number 3 was extended to the right in 1827. Upper floors have two-light casement windows with margin panes; those on the first floor are full-height. A cast-iron trellised verandah spans the front, featuring semicircular arches in front of the doors and virtually elliptical ones in front of the windows, with a lower section acting as a barrier to the basement areas. The doors to numbers 1 and 3 are on the left and center respectively; they are surrounded by Regency-style architraves with reeded jambs and lintels, and roundels set within square frames at the corners. The ground floor windows are mostly sash windows with thin glazing bars, with number 2 incorporating 20th-century French windows on the left. Number 3 projects forward to the right and has a void on the ground floor where a former right-of-way existed. The first-floor bay of number 3 features a hipped roof and a cast-iron balcony supported by a repositioned cast-iron beam.

Inside number 1, the ground floor has a reeded cornice, small elliptical recesses flanking a late 19th-century black marble fireplace, and reeded jambs to the window architrave. Number 3 includes a brick vaulted cellar. The front wall of the cellar is constructed from red limestone rubble, possibly indicating the location of a previous older structure. A well, approximately 30 meters deep and 1.5 meters across, is cut into the subsoil with diminishing diameter circles of bricks at the top. The ground floor has a single-storey lean-to at the rear. One room to the left has two elliptical arches to the left and a large one to the center of the right wall, along with a dogleg staircase. A room on the first floor to the right of number 3, built in 1827, has a high ceiling, a restored reeded cornice, a plaster ceiling rose, a repositioned 18th-century fireplace, and a tall, almost 2-meter high six-panel door with added mouldings. The French windows are set within an elliptical bay; the block features group value context.

Local climate

Nos 1, 2 and 3 and Attached Verandah receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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