John Locke's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
John Locke's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-string-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- John Locke's Cottage, Publow
- OS grid reference
- ST 612 644
- Coordinates
- 51.37766, -2.55743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
John Locke's Cottage is an early 17th-century building that was altered in the mid-19th century. It is constructed from rubble and features a pantiled roof with overhanging eaves. The cottage has two storeys and two bays, with 19th-century two- and three-light casement windows. There is a panelled and studded door on the right side. Inside, the cottage has wide stop-chamfered beams and an inglenook fireplace, along with a newel stair. It is strongly reputed to have been the home of the philosopher John Locke.
Local climate
John Locke's 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 68% 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
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