Thorney Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Cottage. 8 related planning applications.
Thorney Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-steel-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thorney Cottage, Muchelney, TA10 0DP
- OS grid reference
- ST 430 236
- Coordinates
- 51.00944, -2.81377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorney Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 17th century. It is constructed from local lias stone that is roughly cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings. The cottage features a thatched roof with a stepped coped gable at the north end and a half-hip at the south. There is a brick chimney stack at the north end with a traditional baffle top. The building is single-storey with an attic and consists of two bays. It has hollow chamfered three-light mullioned windows set in wave mould recesses, with square labels above. The three-light casements are located in swept thatch dormers, with the dormer in the second bay being older. Between the bays, there is a 20th-century boarded door and frame in a plain opening, accompanied by an open timber and thatch porch. The south gable is rendered and features 20th-century casement windows. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Thorney 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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