Melon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

Melon Cottage

WRENN ID
spare-foundation-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 June 1986
Type
House
Address
Melon Cottage, Charlton, Kilmersdon, BA3 5TN
OS grid reference
ST 682 521
Coordinates
51.26801, -2.45695
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Melon Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It has a rendered and colourwashed exterior with a tile roof that is hipped to the left and features a coped verge to the right. The building is two storeys high and consists of four bays. It includes two and three-light moulded stone mullioned windows, four of which have stopped labels. The entrance is located in the third bay from the left and consists of a six-panelled door topped with a stone slab hood supported by stone brackets.

Local climate

Melon Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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