Pigeon House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Cottage.

Pigeon House Cottage

WRENN ID
pale-step-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Pigeon House Cottage, West Monkton
OS grid reference
ST 252 292
Coordinates
51.05783, -3.06743
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pigeon House Cottage is a pair of semi-detached cottages that have been converted into a single dwelling, dating from around 1820. The building features red sandstone random rubble, which was probably originally rendered. It has stone lintels above the first-floor windows, red brick dressings, and quoins that stand proud and are alternately spaced. There is a dentil style brick cornice, a double Roman tile roof, and brick stacks at the gable ends.

The plan consists of a pair of single-cell dwellings that have been transformed into a two-cell layout. The structure is two storeys high with three bays, all featuring 20th-century three-light casements. The first floor windows are set under flat stone lintels that are incised with keystones, while the ground floor has segmental-headed windows in the outer bays. An inserted casement has replaced the original doorway of the right-hand cottage, with the entrance now located on the left side, accessed through a ribbed door that includes an inserted light and a pentice porch supported by wooden columns.

Inside, both gable end fireplaces retain chamfered lintels and intact bread ovens, with the stairs rising at the rear. It is notable for a pair of workers' cottages to have such decorative features, especially given their distance from a large house.

Local climate

Pigeon House Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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