Pound Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. House.
Pound Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-rood-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pound Cottage, Barrington
- OS grid reference
- ST 388 181
- Coordinates
- 50.95959, -2.87159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pound Cottage is a house from the 17th century located in Barrington Village. It is constructed of random rubble with some areas of render and features a thatched roof with a brick stack. The building has two storeys and consists of two bays. On the first floor, there are two 2-light casements directly under the eaves, which have square-paned leaded lights. The ground floor also has two 2-light casements with wooden lintels, and there is a door opening to the left beneath a wooden lintel, featuring a 20th-century ribbed door. The roof slopes down to a single-storeyed outshut on the left, which has a 2-light casement under a wooden lintel. Inside, there is a fireplace with a wooden bressumer.
Local climate
Pound Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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