Burton Barton, 5 Higher Burton is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House.
Burton Barton, 5 Higher Burton
- WRENN ID
- standing-alcove-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Burton Barton, 5 Higher Burton, East Coker
- OS grid reference
- ST 534 133
- Coordinates
- 50.91817, -2.66383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burton Barton is one of a terrace of four cottages, dating from around 1800. The building is constructed from cut and squared ham stone, featuring exposed timber lintels. It has a thatched roof with a coped northwest gable and a brick end chimney stack. The cottage is two storeys high and has two bays, with two-light leaded casement windows that follow an 18th-century pattern. There is a late 20th-century entrance door located in the second bay. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Burton Barton, 5 Higher Burton receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
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