18, Higher Street is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. Cottage.
18, Higher Street
- WRENN ID
- sombre-loggia-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 18, Higher Street, Merriott
- OS grid reference
- ST 446 130
- Coordinates
- 50.91417, -2.78932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18 Higher Street is a cottage located at the end of a row, likely built in the 18th century. It is constructed from ham stone rubble and features a thatched roof with a plain gable at the north end, continuing to the south, and has brick chimney stacks at each end. The cottage has two storeys and an irregular arrangement of three bays for its windows. The ground floor has small casement windows with mostly horizontal bars, consisting of two, four, and three lights, each topped with a timber lintel. The first floor has two, three, and two lights, with the central window set higher into the thatch. Between the second and third bays, there is a boarded door framed heavily under a timber lintel. Attached to the north-west corner is a single-storey stone building with a triple-roll clay tiled roof. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
18, Higher Street receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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