Farleigh Cottage Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1984. Residential.
Farleigh Cottage Tower House
- WRENN ID
- stark-rubblework-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1984
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Farleigh Cottage Tower House, Claverton
- OS grid reference
- ST 788 639
- Coordinates
- 51.37386, -2.30502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farleigh Cottage Tower House is a pair of cottages, possibly estate cottages or almshouses, built in the mid to late 19th century. The structure features coursed rubble with freestone dressings and decorative tiled roofs. The most prominent aspect is the tower at the north end, which has three stages and a pyramidal roof with ashlar quoins. Plain string courses separate the stages, with the upper stage resting on square corbels. The lower stages have single light windows, while the second floor features a window with a cusped ogee head, and the top stage has a tripartite window, although the outer parts are blank.
To the south lies the main part of the cottages, which is a single storey with attics, characterized by three steep and narrow stone dormers topped with fleur-de-lys finials. The building has ashlar stacks with cornices, and the roof extends over the eaves, supported by five stop-chamfered stone piers. There are single and two-light casement windows, along with two plank doors. A single bay 20th-century extension is located on the right side.
Local climate
Farleigh Cottage Tower House 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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