Selwood Cottage and Attached Cottage to Left is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Cottage.
Selwood Cottage and Attached Cottage to Left
- WRENN ID
- lesser-mullion-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Selwood Cottage and Attached Cottage to Left, Mells
- OS grid reference
- ST 728 491
- Coordinates
- 51.24121, -2.3907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Selwood Cottage and the attached cottage to the left are a pair of cottages from the 18th century. They are built from Doulting rubble with a tile roof that features stone courses at the eaves and dressed stone stacks, with the left stack being heightened and a brick stack on the right. The cottage on the left has two stories and segmental headed casements with cast-iron diamond-paned lights. There is a 20th-century glazed door located between the first and second bays, along with a 20th-century gabled wooden porch. The contiguous outbuilding to the left has a segmental headed three-light mullion and transom window with similar cast lights, and a door opening to the left with a four-panelled door. Selwood Cottage itself has two stories and two bays, with casements on the first floor set in half dormers. It features a central door opening with a glazed plank door and a gabled hood that has a tiled fascia.
Local climate
Selwood Cottage and Attached Cottage to Left 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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