Cockspurs is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Cockspurs
- WRENN ID
- sheer-stair-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cockspurs, New Street, Somerton
- OS grid reference
- ST 493 286
- Coordinates
- 51.05526, -2.72441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cockspurs is a cottage that dates from the 18th century or earlier. It is built from local stone that has been cut and squared, with a roof made of plain clay tiles and pantiles, featuring one coped gable and brick and stone chimney stacks. The building has a complicated plan on a wedge-shaped site, likely originally consisting of several small cottages. It is two storeys high with a two-bay north elevation facing Old Hill, which includes a gable end. This elevation features three light horizontal bar casement windows above and a small pane casement window in the lower bay, along with a boarded door in bay two. There is a timber and tiled verandah along part of this elevation. The west elevation, which has one bay, includes composite sash windows with 8+12+8 panes at both levels. The south facade facing New Street has two gables with a noticeable straight joint between them and features three 20th-century windows of varying types. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Cockspurs receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% 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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