The Music Room, 90 Metres North West of Pen Pits is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1982. Music room.
The Music Room, 90 Metres North West of Pen Pits
- WRENN ID
- tangled-chalk-fog
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1982
- Type
- Music room
- OS grid reference
- ST 764 316
- Coordinates
- 51.0836, -2.33754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Music Room, located 90 metres northwest of Pen Pits, is a music room built in 1935 by P J B Harland for Sir Arthur Bliss. It features a wood frame with painted weatherboard cladding, set on a brick base and piers, and has an asphalt flat roof with a colourwashed brick chimney stack. The building is situated on sloping ground, with a solid base on the southwest side and two piers on the northeast. The entrance door is on the southeast, and there are timber casements in the opposite corner, along with a casement window that spans the entire northeast elevation.
Inside, the room is lined with plywood and includes a small brick fireplace. There are bookcases and music score shelves, as well as a fitted desk under the window, with a gap for a piano heater. The Music Room was designed as an isolated retreat for Sir Arthur Bliss to compose music. It is constructed within the Pen Pits Quern Quarries, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 470).
Local climate
The Music Room, 90 Metres North West of Pen Pits receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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