Peacock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Peacock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-terrace-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Peacock Cottage, Cary Road, North Cadbury, BA22 7DE
- OS grid reference
- ST 634 274
- Coordinates
- 51.04489, -2.52318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Peacock Cottage is a detached cottage located on Cary Road in North Cadbury. Originally shown as Dairy House on the Ordnance Survey map, it dates from the 17th century and was extended in the 19th century. The building is constructed from cut and squared lias and Cary stone, with Doulting dressings, and features a double Roman clay tile roof. The earlier southern portion has coped gables and brick chimney stacks.
The cottage has two storeys with an attic and is arranged in two groups of two bays. The southern bays are from the 17th century, with bay 1 featuring 4-light timber casement windows, the upper of which has an early chamfered frame. Bay 2 contains reserve-chamfer mullioned windows with labels, a 4-light window below and a 3-light window above, along with an added casement window below to the right. The later bays 3 and 4 have 2-light casements, with the lower windows having toplights and set under voussoired segmental arched heads. Between bays 2 and 3, there is a boarded door in an arched opening, accessed by a flight of seven stone steps. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Peacock Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 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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