Four Walls Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Four Walls Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-tallow-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Four Walls Cottage, Dyehouse Lane, Chard Town, TA20 1JS
- OS grid reference
- ST 318 090
- Coordinates
- 50.87707, -2.97047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Four Walls Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Dyouhouse Lane in Chard. It is stuccoed with a thatched roof, and has brick stacks to the gable ends. The cottage has a 2-unit plan and a 2-window front. The windows are a mix of 19th and 20th-century casements; the first floor has a 2-light window to the left and a 4-light window to the right, while the ground floor has a 3-light window to the left and a 4-light window to the right. A 20th-century medieval-style door is positioned to the far right, sheltered by a thatched porch. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Four Walls Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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