Bay Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. A C17 Farmhouse.
Bay Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-crypt-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bay Cottage, Main Road, Long Load
- OS grid reference
- ST 465 233
- Coordinates
- 51.00695, -2.76264
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bay Cottage is a semi-detached farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century. It is constructed from local grey lias stone that has been cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings and a thatched roof featuring coped gables and brick end chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and four bays. On the upper level, there are three-light leaded casement windows of an early design. The lower level features four-light hollow chamfered mullioned windows with unworked top mitres and labels, all rectangular leaded. Attached to the rear are pantiled farm buildings, which were presumably once thatched, with a coped west gable and tall stable-type doors located in the middle. The interior has not been seen, but it is reported to contain flats with unstopped chamfered beams and one fireplace, along with collar beam roof trusses.
Local climate
Bay Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
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