Windmill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Cottage.

Windmill Cottage

WRENN ID
tenth-tallow-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1959
Type
Cottage
Address
Windmill Cottage, Muchelney
OS grid reference
ST 431 243
Coordinates
51.01603, -2.81138
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Windmill Cottage is a detached cottage, probably from the 17th century, that has been modified. It is built of local lias stone that has been cut and squared, with a colourwashed finish and Ham stone dressings. The cottage features a thatched roof with a stepped coped gable on the south side and a hipped roof on the north end, along with brick chimney stacks. The building has an 'L' plan and is a single storey with attics, presenting a two-bay roadside elevation.

The windows are hollow chamfered mullioned types with three lights, featuring rectangular leaded panes. The window in the first bay has ovolo moulded jambs and no label, while the second bay window has a label. Between the bays, there is a 20th-century boarded door and frame set in a plain opening under a timber lintel. On the north side, there is a continuation that includes one two-light mullioned window, likely reset, in the north wall, with a copy alongside it. In the southeast corner, there is a larger late 20th-century extension, which is not of special interest, as is the lean-to garage against the south gable. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Windmill Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 62% 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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