Spring Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. Cottage.
Spring Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-zinc-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Spring Cottage, Ash Priors
- OS grid reference
- ST 152 294
- Coordinates
- 51.05821, -3.21129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was remodeled in the mid-20th century. It is constructed from red sandstone random rubble and features a thatched roof with an external rendered stack on the left. The building is two stories high and has two bays, with windows that are irregularly placed and consist of 2, 3, and 4-light casements. The ground floor windows have wooden lintels.
On the left side of the cottage, the entrance is located to the right of the external stack and is accessed by steps. Above the entrance, there is a 3-light casement window, and there is a pantiled bread oven projection with a 2-light casement on the ground floor and a 4-light casement above, both under wooden lintels. The rear of the cottage features a 20th-century flat roof extension, and a spring rises beneath this extension.
Inside, the ground floor room has three moulded beams that end in diamond stops, suggesting it may have originally had a four-compartment ceiling.
Local climate
Spring Cottage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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