Gothic Cottage with Steps, Gateway and Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. House.
Gothic Cottage with Steps, Gateway and Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- strange-sill-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gothic Cottage with Steps, Gateway and Boundary Wall, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- ST 760 638
- Coordinates
- 51.37276, -2.34508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gothic Cottage with steps, gateway, and boundary wall, built in 1854, is a detached house made of limestone ashlar with stone slate roofs. The cottage features a small picturesque design with Gothic details, including a main range in a reversed T-plan, a small porch at the front, and a lower wing to the left with an additional entry.
The front range has two storeys and two windows. To the left, there is a flush gable with two-light above three-light ovolo mould stone mullioned casements, which have a drip course at the long dropped ends and flush sills. To the right is a small porch with a separate transverse gabled roof, featuring a pointed part-glazed door and cusped trefoil lights on the road and north sides, the latter under a small recessed diamond panel. All gables have saddleback copings on the kneelers, and the front gable displays the date 1854. There is a large ridge stack on a square base with five conjoined diagonal shafts.
The left return is plain, with a quatrefoiled oculus flanked by long horizontal panels with trefoil ends at mid-height. At the end of the left return is a low wing with a pantile roof, which has a nine-pane casement with pointed heads on the top panes and a six-panel door. The south return features a coped gable with a quatrefoil oculus above a three-light ovolo mould stone mullioned small pane casement. At the ground floor, there is a canted bay with two:three:two-lights to hollow mould stone mullions and a stepped hipped stone roof. The rear wing also has a gable and includes one over two small cusped lancets.
The interior has not been inspected. The front of the low entry wing has a broad stone-paved landing and a flight of stone steps with winders leading down to a doorway with a pointed panelled door set in a stone boundary wall with horizontal coping, which is stopped at the outer end by a square ashlar pier.
Local climate
Gothic Cottage with Steps, Gateway and Boundary Wall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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