Peony Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Peony Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-gateway-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Peony Cottage, 55 and 56, Sub Road, Butleigh, BA6 8SR
- OS grid reference
- ST 520 333
- Coordinates
- 51.09737, -2.68659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Peony Cottage is a 17th-century building that originally consisted of two cottages but has been converted into a single dwelling. It is constructed from coursed and squared rubble with a thatched roof and features a brick ridge stack. The cottage is single storey with an attic, displaying a symmetrical façade with three bays. The windows are 2, 3, and 4-light casements, with the rightmost window located in a dormer gable that has coping. There are two door openings, each with plank doors and gabled hoods; the left door is supported by attractive dressed lias stone.
Local climate
Peony Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- 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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