The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. House.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
under-bracket-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1976
Type
House
Address
The Cottage, 52, Snowdon Cottage Lane, Chard Town
OS grid reference
ST 317 086
Coordinates
50.87289, -2.97164
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century. It features painted roughcast walls and a hipped thatched roof, with brick stacks at the hip ends; the stack on the left is rendered. The building has a one-room deep plan with an outshut made of painted rubble and a slate roof. It is two storeys high and has a three-window range. All windows and doors were replaced around 1990. The interior has been completely altered.

Local climate

The Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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