The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. House. 5 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-kitchen-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Pightley Lane, Spaxton, TA5 1AQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 358
- Coordinates
- 51.11713, -3.10517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house that dates back to the 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a roughcast exterior and a pantile roof, along with brick and rubble stacks. The building has three pent-roofed dormers that contain casement windows. It is designed in a cross-passage plan and is a single storey with an attic, comprising three bays. The windows are 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars. There is a door opening located between the first and second bays, which has a plank door.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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