The Cottage Upcott House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

The Cottage Upcott House

WRENN ID
heavy-banister-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1955
Type
Farmhouse
Address
The Cottage Upcott House, Upcott Road, Bishop's Hull, TA4 1AQ
OS grid reference
ST 194 246
Coordinates
51.01564, -3.14933
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Upcott House and The Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into two houses. It dates back to the 17th century and was enlarged around 1790, with a porch added in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of brick in Flemish bond on a rubble plinth, with the east front rendered and a hipped slate roof behind a parapet.

The layout likely consists of three cells and a cross passage running east to west, with the eastern end refronted. Two additional rooms were added to the south front, and a staircase was inserted to the left of the current entrance. The house features three bays; the first floor has 16-pane sash windows flanking a 12-pane sash window, while the ground floor has a 16-pane sash window to the left of a central flat-roofed porch made of ashlar Bath stone. To the right of the porch is an upper section of a 16-pane sash window with 20th-century inserted glazing below, a semi-circular headed doorway, a leaded fanlight, and a half-glazed door.

On the left return, there is a 19th-century three-light ogee-headed window. The main entrance now faces the road with a nine-bay right return, constructed of brick, which retains the remains of a coved cornice, coped verges, and a brick stack on the right gable end. There are also brick sticks to the left of a blocked doorway and rising from the eaves above two blind windows on the left end. To the right, there are three 16-pane sash windows, a half door below, and two 16-pane sash windows to the right, with door and window openings modified in the end four bays on the right.

Local climate

The Cottage Upcott House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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