Wesley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Cottage.
Wesley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-solder-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wesley Cottage, North Street, South Petherton
- OS grid reference
- ST 431 172
- Coordinates
- 50.95166, -2.81119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wesley Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 18th century, constructed from roughly cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings. It features a double Roman clay tiled roof between high stepped coped gables, which suggest it may have originally had thatch, and has brick chimney stacks. The cottage is two storeys high and has three bays.
On the upper level, there are 20th-century timber casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, arranged in groups of three and four lights. The lower level features chamfered mullioned windows with four lights in chamfered recesses, complete with labels and iron-framed opening lights; the window in the third bay has rectangular leaded glass. In the second bay, there is a cambered-arched doorway that is accessed by one step, leading to a 19th-century part-glazed door set in a recess.
Attached to the west gable is a single-bay extension with a Welsh slate roof and casement windows, dating from around 1900, along with another single-storey extension located to the west of this. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Wesley 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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- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1995
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