Mark House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. Country house. 3 related planning applications.
Mark House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-garret-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Mark House, Blackford Road, TA9 4NP
- OS grid reference
- ST 383 478
- Coordinates
- 51.22615, -2.88396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mark House is a country house built around 1800. It features Flemish bond brickwork, a moulded stone cornice, a brick parapet with plain coping, and a double span slate roof with coped verges and end brick stacks topped with stone caps. The house has a symmetrical frontage with three storeys and three bays, where the central bay slightly projects forward. The second floor has 20th century two-light casement windows, while the first floor has 12-pane sash windows. The ground floor showcases tripartite 20-pane sash windows with cambered heads, all adorned with rubbed brick voussoirs.
The central door opening has sidelights and an elliptical head, also featuring rubbed brick voussoirs, a six-panelled door, and an overlight with radiating glazing bars. To the right, there is a two-storey flanking brick pavilion with a slate roof that has a ridge at right angles to the main frontage. This pavilion has a pedimented gable with a moulded stone surround and a tall semi-circular head sash window with glazing bars set in a shallow recess at the center of the frontage. The pavilion is connected to the main house by a short section of brick wall that includes a shallow semi-circular headed niche. Inside, there are some contemporary features, including a staircase and window shutters on the ground floor.
Local climate
Mark House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- 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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