Wayside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Cottage.
Wayside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-doorway-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wayside Cottage, Dowlish Wake
- OS grid reference
- ST 375 126
- Coordinates
- 50.91029, -2.88953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wayside Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located at the end of a row in Dowlish Wake village. It is constructed from cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings and features a thatched roof with a coped gable that continues to the north. The cottage has a brick chimney stack and is a single-storey building with an attic, comprising two bays.
In the first bay, there is a hollow-chamfered mullioned window with five lights set within a chamfered recess, which has a label above it. The second bay contains a two-light chamfer-mullioned window, which appears to be a 20th-century addition, along with a recessed doorway to the right that features a 20th-century door and sidelight beneath a timber lintel. The attic includes a three-light small-pane casement window set into a swept thatched dormer.
The south gable displays two circular windows, with the attic window having a hood mould. There is also a gable entry that features a 20th-century stone and tiled lean-to porch. The interior has not been inspected. Brookside Cottage, which is attached to the north side, is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Wayside Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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