The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-threshold-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Brympton, BA21 3PZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 525 179
- Coordinates
- 50.95877, -2.67649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a detached cottage dating to the 17th century, with later modifications. It is constructed of roughly cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings, and has a plain clay tiled roof laid over stone slate base courses. Stepped coped gables and brick chimney stacks are also present. The cottage is two storeys high and has four bays. The upper floor has small-pane casement windows of 2, 4, 3, and 3 lights respectively. The ground floor features hollow chamfered mullioned windows with unworked top mitres, set in chamfered recesses with labels. The ground floor windows are 3-light in bays 2 and 3, and 2-light in bay 4, all with rectangular leaded panes and some iron framed opening lights. A glazed door is located between bays 2 and 3, and a pair of timber garage doors, set under a timber lintol, are in the lower bay 1. A later extension is visible to the rear. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
The 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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