The Cottage, Middle Cottage, Jacobs Cottage and Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Row of cottages. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage, Middle Cottage, Jacobs Cottage and Brook House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-flint-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Row of cottages
- Address
- The Cottage, Middle Cottage, Jacobs Cottage and Brook House, Kingsbury Episcopi, TA13 5HE
- OS grid reference
- ST 422 184
- Coordinates
- 50.96231, -2.8236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of four cottages situated in Middlecottage, Kingsbury Episcopi. The cottage on the extreme right, known as The Cottage, retains some 17th-century features, while the rest of the row appears to have been substantially rebuilt during the 18th and 19th centuries. The cottages are constructed of coursed and squared Hamstone, with Hamstone and brick stacks, and have thatched roofs. They are arranged over two floors, with eaves rising slightly to create decorative projections, or “bonnets,” over the first-floor windows.
The row has a 1:2:2:2 bay arrangement. The Cottage features a seven-light and a four-light stone-mullioned window on the ground floor, with stopped labels; the first floor has an eight-light casement window and a four-light casement window. The other openings on the front elevation are later, with 19th and 20th-century wooden and metal casement windows. There are four door openings, with three plank doors and a half-glazed door. A central throughway has a plank door.
Local climate
The Cottage, Middle Cottage, Jacobs Cottage and Brook House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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