Pair of Cottages at Bridge Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. Cottage.

Pair of Cottages at Bridge Farm

WRENN ID
fallen-dormer-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Pair of Cottages at Bridge Farm, South Petherton
OS grid reference
ST 451 159
Coordinates
50.9402, -2.78263
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This pair of cottages at Bridge Farm dates from the mid-19th century and is constructed from ham stone near-ashlar. The cottages feature a roof covered with single Roman clay tiles, set between coped gables with roll finials, and a central ashlar chimney stack. The design includes a double roof and a cruciform plan, with two storeys and two gabled bays, along with gabled side projections.

Notable architectural details include a chamfered plinth and a string course. The cottages have hollow-chamfered mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses, with labels above. The windows feature horizontal-bar casement infills, with two-light windows above and three-light windows below, all topped with pointed segmental relieving arches. The side projections have matching two-light windows in their end gables, and the roadside returns have boarded doors in segmental-arched openings.

There is a single-storey hipped roof extension at the rear. Aside from the addition of simple 20th-century porches to each house, the pair appears to have undergone little alteration, although the interiors have not been seen.

Local climate

Pair of Cottages at Bridge Farm receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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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