Carters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. House.
Carters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-bracket-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Carters Cottage, Northtown Road, North Wootton
- OS grid reference
- ST 567 417
- Coordinates
- 51.1729, -2.62063
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carters Cottage is a house dated 1803, as indicated by an oval stone plaque with raised lettering on the right side of the first floor. The cottage features a slightly later addition on the left. It is constructed from coursed rubble and has a slate roof. The building stands two storeys high and has a layout of 1:2 bays, with 16-pane sash windows set in dressed stone surrounds. There are two door openings with plank doors, one of which is located to the right and is framed by a dressed stone surround.
Local climate
Carters Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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