The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-transept-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Marksbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 680 630
- Coordinates
- 51.3655, -2.46103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It is constructed of rubble with quoins and features freestone dressings. The roof is made of pantiles and has raised coped verges, along with an ashlar stack. The building has two storeys and four windows, all of which are two-light casements with ovolo-moulded mullions. On the first floor, the windows are positioned below a continuous string course beneath the eaves. The ground floor has windows at the centre, flanked by an inserted plank door to the left and a later door under a flat hood supported by brackets to the right. The south gable includes a similar blocked first-floor window beneath a hoodmould, while the rear elevation features a similar blocked window and remnants of two others. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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