Friars Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1974. House. 2 related planning applications.
Friars Gate
- WRENN ID
- guardian-rafter-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Friars Gate, 35, Friarn Street, Bridgwater, TA6 3LJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 297 368
- Coordinates
- 51.12629, -3.0057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century house located on Friars Street in Bridgwater. The house is constructed of Flemish-bond brick with stone copings, a cornice, stepped voussoirs, a platband, and cills, and has a mansard pantile roof with brick stacks to the gable ends. It is a double-depth plan building, with a large rear wing added in the 1980s, incorporating a cellar.
The house is arranged over two storeys with an attic, and originally presented a symmetrical three-window facade. There are three raking dormers to the attic, and the cornice returns below the parapet. All windows are 8/8-pane sashes. The central doorway, dating from around 1900, features a leaded light transom above a recessed six-panel door, glazed to the top, flanked by fixed leaded lights with segmental tops. A former doorway is visible to the far right, with a segmental brick arch, now blocked.
The interior features a hall with six-panel doors set in moulded architraves, a reeded cornice, and a ceiling rose. The cellar has segmental brick arches to the ceiling.
Local climate
Friars Gate 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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