Farleigh Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1984. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.

Farleigh Cottage

WRENN ID
spare-tin-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Farleigh Cottage, Backwell Hill Road, BS48 3PL
OS grid reference
ST 497 691
Coordinates
51.4195, -2.72398
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Farleigh Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the early to mid 17th century. It is constructed of painted rubble with a thatched roof featuring coped verges and brick end stacks. The cottage is two storeys high. It has three 2-light casement windows added in the 20th century. A 20th-century thatched porch shelters the central entrance door.

Local climate

Farleigh Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 7 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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