Blake House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Blake House
- WRENN ID
- proud-turret-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blake House, Bow Street, Langport, TA10 9PQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 418 267
- Coordinates
- 51.03695, -2.83113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blake House is an earlier 19th-century house in Langport. It is built of local lias stone ashlar, with the upper floors colourwashed. The roof is Welsh slate, hidden behind a parapet. The house has brick chimney stacks.
The building is three storeys high and has two bays, with the left-hand bay being slightly narrower and projecting. Features include a plinth, a band course above the ground floor, partial eaves course, a cornice, and a plain parapet. The windows are sash windows in plain openings with flat heads. The ground floor windows have 12 panes. The first floor has a 16-pane sash in the left-hand bay, and a 12-pane sash in an architrave with an apron panel in the right-hand bay. The second floor windows have 9 panes each. A four-panelled door is situated to the left of the lower right-hand bay, under a margined rectangular fanlight set in a semi-circular arched recess. Above the door is a segmental through-arch with impost blocks, and panelled gates.
The interior of the house has not been inspected. Blake House is a good architectural complement to Pottery Plus, which was the old mason's house located immediately to the west.
Local climate
Blake House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- 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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