The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Residential.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-chalk-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Cottage, Church Street, Norton St. Philip, BA2 7LU
- OS grid reference
- ST 771 557
- Coordinates
- 51.30046, -2.32862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a detached house built around 1850. It features coursed rubble Doulting stone with ashlar quoins. The gable roofs are covered with three courses of plain clay tiles alternating with two courses of fish tail tiles, and they have projecting purlins, boarded soffits, verge boards, and stone ridge tiles. The chimney stack at the right end has a pair of octagonal flues that are linked at the top by a common cap.
The house has two storeys and a four-window front, with the third window set in a projecting gable-roofed, two-storey porch that includes an entrance. The door is vertical boarded and lapped, set in a chamfered stone frame with a flat pointed arch. The windows are two- and three-light, with six- and eight-pane moulded stone mullions and stopped dripmoulds over the ground floor windows.
To the left, there is a lower two-storey range that projects forward, meeting a stepped, tile-coped screen wall that leads to a roofed staircase. The house features a bracketed chimney breast and a cantilevered, tile-hung corner bay with a three-light casement window. There is also a four-light chamfered stone mullion window on the first floor, which has a weathered string course above it.
Local climate
The 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
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