Lester Cottage Peacehaven is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1983. Pair of houses.
Lester Cottage Peacehaven
- WRENN ID
- night-beam-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1983
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- Lester Cottage Peacehaven, High Street, Wellow
- OS grid reference
- ST 740 583
- Coordinates
- 51.32345, -2.37318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lester Cottage is a pair of houses located on the north-west side of High Street in Wellow, with Peacehaven situated to the rear and right of Lester Cottage. Lester Cottage dates from the late 17th century and has been altered. It is constructed of rubble and features a double Roman tiled roof with a coped raised verge. The building has two storeys, with two windows and a central door. The left side has 2-light casements with moulded mullions and surrounds, while the right side has early to mid-19th century sashes with mixed glazing. The door is a modern plank design. The east gable includes two 2-light casements with moulded mullions and surrounds, which are positioned under drip moulds.
Peacehaven, also from the late 17th century and altered, is similarly built of rubble and has a modern tiled roof with a coped raised verge. It has two storeys, featuring a single glazing bar sash window with a modern porch below at the front, and two 2-light casements in the east gable with moulded mullions and surrounds under drip moulds. There are two additional casements on the rear elevation.
Local climate
Lester Cottage Peacehaven receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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