The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallow-spire-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Church Street, Norton St. Philip, BA2 7LU
- OS grid reference
- ST 771 557
- Coordinates
- 51.30052, -2.32892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Church Street in Norton St. Philip. It is constructed from random rubble Doulting stone and features a double Roman clay tile gabled roof with a chimney stack at the rear. The building has two plain gables and is one and a half storeys high. The windows are scattered, including three 2-light casements with diagonal headed glazing set in 20th-century chamfered stone frames on the ground floor. The entrance doors are located between the first and second windows and to the right of the third window. The doors are vertically boarded with square head openings, and the left door has moulded wood architraves. On the first floor, there are similar windows, with two in the left gable and one in the right gable.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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