Burton Cottage Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. A Medieval Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Burton Cottage Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- blind-hearth-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Burton Cottage Farmhouse, Higher Burton, East Coker, BA22 9LS
- OS grid reference
- ST 534 134
- Coordinates
- 50.91828, -2.66349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burton Cottage Farmhouse is a 15th or 16th century farmhouse that has been modified over time. It is constructed of rubble stonework with Ham stone dressings, some cob walling, and is mostly rendered and colourwashed. The roof is thatched with simple verges and an uneven ridge on the south-east end. Brick chimney stacks are located at the ends and centre of the building.
The farmhouse is an example of a cross-entry long-house design, originally a single storey with an attic, and comprises four bays. A 3-light casement window is in the first bay. The second bay features a 3-light stone mullioned window with rectangular leaded panes and a label, with a 3-light casement window above, flanked by lean-to buttresses. A plain entrance door and a small, single-light casement window are in the third bay, with a 2-light casement window above. A 2-light leaded window in an artificial stone surround is in the fourth bay.
The interior is not visible but is reported to contain jointed cruck trusses with straight windbraces and some wattle and daub partitions. The fourth bay was used as an agricultural store and stable until 1975.
Local climate
Burton Cottage Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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