Montacute Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House.

Montacute Cottage

WRENN ID
pitched-chapel-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1961
Type
House
Address
Montacute Cottage, 1, the Borough
OS grid reference
ST 498 169
Coordinates
50.95001, -2.71563
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Montacute Cottage is a semi-detached house dating from around 1500 and later. It is built from cut and squared Ham stone with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof over stone slate base courses, featuring stepped coped gables and stone chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays.

In the first bay, there are chamfered mullioned windows with three lights; the upper window is plain, while the lower window is set in a chamfered recess and has a 20th-century label above it, with square-headed lights. The second bay features a three-light 16th-century traceried window with trefoil cusped, slightly ogee heads set in a flat-arched wave-mould recess. The third bay has a plain-chamfered two-light window in a chamfered recess. The lower windows in the second and third bays are chamfer-mullioned windows with three and two lights, respectively, also in flat-arched wave-mould recesses, with ogee-arched lights and corresponding spandrils. All windows are rectangular leaded with some iron-framed opening lights.

Between the first and second bays, there is a moulded four-centre arched doorway without a label, which contains a 20th-century boarded door. The interior has not been seen but is said to have been altered; it may have originally featured an open hall.

Local climate

Montacute Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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