The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-stone-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Hemington, BA3 5XU
- OS grid reference
- ST 730 533
- Coordinates
- 51.27869, -2.38832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of rubble with a tile roof and features a brick and a rubble stack. The building is single storey with an attic and has a symmetrical facade with three bays. The front-facing gables to the attic contain 8-pane casements from the 20th century, while the ground floor has a similar casement and two 19th-century casements, along with a three-light wooden-mullioned window that has an ovolo moulding. The central door opening is framed in an ovolo-moulded wooden frame and features a plank door, with a 20th-century gabled porch added. There is also a single storey addition to the left of the main structure.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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