Hadspen Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1978. A C17 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Hadspen Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-kitchen-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hadspen Cottage, Pitcombe, BA7 7LR
- OS grid reference
- ST 656 325
- Coordinates
- 51.09136, -2.49166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hadspen Cottage is a cottage, probably dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of Cary stone rubble with a thatched roof, featuring plain gables and brick chimney stacks at the ends and between the bays. The cottage is single-storey with an attic, and has an irregular arrangement of six bays. Most of the windows are horizontal bar casements, though some are steel casements, all set under exposed timber lintels. There are attic windows in bays 1, 3, 5 and 6, set into the thatch. A plain door is located between bays 4 and the south side of the cottage. Inside, the structure includes scroll stop chamfer beams and a collar truss roof. A fireplace is present in the west gable wall, featuring a chamfered deep timber beam, ovens and a possible first-floor bacon curing chamber. It is thought the site may have been that of a former watermill.
Local climate
Hadspen Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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