Wardour Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to South is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1986. Farmhouse.

Wardour Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to South

WRENN ID
heavy-railing-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1986
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
ST 210 181
Coordinates
50.95741, -3.12475
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wardour Cottage and the adjoining cottage to the south are two dwellings that were originally a farmhouse, which was enlarged and later divided. The building dates from the late 16th to early 17th century and was refenestrated and enlarged in the early 19th century. The right side is rendered over rubble, while the left side features chert random rubble with brick dressings, which was originally rendered. The roof of the original dwelling is steeply pitched and covered with tiles, while the adjoining section has a shallow pitched slate roof with coped verges and brick stacks at the gable ends.

The original dwelling, known as Wardour Cottage, has a two-cell layout with a cross passage, and the south end has been rebuilt as a double pile house. The building has two and one and a half storeys with three bays on the left and three bays on the right. The left side features 12-pane sash windows, while the right side has three-light casements and a single-storey projection at the end. There is a flat-roofed Ham stone Tuscan Doric porch with a leaded fanlight and an early 20th-century part-glazed door located to the left, with another door positioned centrally on the right. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Wardour Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to South receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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