Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Cottage.
Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-garret-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Holly Cottage, Higher Burton, East Coker
- OS grid reference
- ST 536 131
- Coordinates
- 50.91615, -2.66033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed from rubble and is colourwashed, featuring a double Roman clay tiled roof with plain verges and brick end chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. The windows are two-light small pane wood casements with exposed timber lintels, and there is a boarded entrance door located in bay three. The first-floor windows are smaller, with no window present in bay two. The cottage is situated in a prominent position on a corner site. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Holly Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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