Pethers Cottage the Grey House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
Pethers Cottage the Grey House
- WRENN ID
- upper-glass-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pethers Cottage the Grey House, the Square, Axbridge, BS26 2AP
- OS grid reference
- ST 431 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28748, -2.81679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two houses, dating from the late 18th century. The Grey House is rough-cast, while Pethers Cottage is rendered, both with slate roofs and decorative ridge tiles. The left side has a coped verge and the remains of a demolished stack. Each house is three storeys and two bays wide, featuring 16-pane sash windows, with the exception of 12-pane sash windows on the second floor. Pethers Cottage has a segmental bow window to the right of its ground floor, containing 16 fixed lights, a faciaboard, and a flat roof. Each house has a door with a 6-panelled design, the top two panels glazed in The Grey House. Above each door is a bracketted arched fanlight, topped with open triangular pediments on brackets.
Local climate
Pethers Cottage the Grey House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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