Tudor Cottage and Forecourt Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. A C16 House. 1 related planning application.
Tudor Cottage and Forecourt Wall
- WRENN ID
- quiet-storey-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tudor Cottage and Forecourt Wall, Fivehead, TA3 6PJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 353 229
- Coordinates
- 51.00197, -2.9233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed rubble with a thatched roof, featuring coped verges and brick and ashlar stacks. The house is single-storey with an attic, arranged with three bays. The first floor has 3-light casement windows from the 19th century, each set beneath an undulating eaves hood. The ground floor has 4-light stone mullioned windows, all with labels. The central entrance has a 6-panelled door under a thatched hood supported by two wooden posts. A forecourt wall, with freestone coping and a central iron gate, is also part of the property.
Local climate
Tudor Cottage and Forecourt Wall receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
- 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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