Bay Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Bay Tree House
- WRENN ID
- rooted-spandrel-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bay Tree House, Turnpike Road, Shipham, BS25 1TX
- OS grid reference
- ST 444 575
- Coordinates
- 51.31471, -2.79893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bay Tree House is an early 19th-century house located on the west side of Turnpike Road in Shipham. The building features a roughcast exterior and a double Roman tile roof with a crested ridge, a parapet with coping, coped verges, and brick stacks. It has a symmetrical design with two storeys and three bays. The first floor is adorned with 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 6-pane sash windows, all set within plain stone surrounds that have slightly cambered heads and emphasized keystones. The central door opening is framed by a semi-circular headed stone surround, featuring a six-panelled door and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars, topped by a cambered wooden hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
Bay Tree House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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