Ruscombe House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1963. House. 3 related planning applications.
Ruscombe House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-courtyard-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ruscombe House, High Street, Cannington
- OS grid reference
- ST 256 396
- Coordinates
- 51.15093, -3.06452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ruscombe House is a detached house set back from the street, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of brick and features a double Roman tile roof with coped verges. The house has a symmetrical front and an L-plan layout with a wing at the rear that has a swept-down roof. The front elevation includes three windows with 4-pane replacement sashes on the first floor, a three-course string, and late 19th or early 20th century canted bays flanking a late porch that has a 4-panel part-glazed door. The front is also flanked by raised quoins. The rear wing contains 20th-century windows.
Local climate
Ruscombe 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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