Sweet Briar Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Sweet Briar Cottages
- WRENN ID
- long-baluster-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sweet Briar Cottages, 1 and 2, Yatton, BS49 4PZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 446 670
- Coordinates
- 51.40001, -2.79654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pair of attached houses at Sweet Briar Cottages likely originated in the late 17th century and have undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The left-hand cottage (No. 1) has rendered rubble walls, while the right-hand cottage (No. 2) has colourwashed rubble walls, both topped with a pantiled roof featuring ridge and gable stacks.
The cottages are arranged as 1 1/2 storeys with a 3-window front. On the ground floor, from left to right, is a 4-light casement retaining some ovolo-moulded mullions, now with 20th-century lattice glazing; a door with strap hinges, an inset glazed panel, and a triangular hood; a half-glazed door; and a further 3-light casement with segmental heads. Above are three gabled dormers, each with a casement window of two upper and two lower lights. The right return features a single-storey addition with waney-edged boarding, a 3-light casement to the front, and two 20th-century 4-pane lights to the side. The left return shows a 2-light casement at both ground and first floor levels, along with a single-storey wing to the rear. The interior is not accessible.
Local climate
Sweet Briar Cottages receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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