Court Cottage Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Cottage, outbuilding.

Court Cottage Virginia Cottage

WRENN ID
quiet-pewter-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 May 1985
Type
Cottage, outbuilding
Address
Court Cottage Virginia Cottage, 1, the Street, West Monkton
OS grid reference
ST 262 283
Coordinates
51.04939, -3.05419
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Court Cottage and Virginia Cottage are two dwellings that were originally a cottage and outbuilding, dating from the 17th to 18th century, with alterations made in the late 20th century. The buildings are constructed from colour-washed random rubble and feature a steeply pitched double Roman tiled roof with a brick stack on the left gable end, while the left side has a lower plain clay tiled roof. The layout includes a single cell dwelling that adjoins Nos 2 and 3 The Street to the west, with the outbuilding forming part of a separate dwelling, Court Cottage, to the east. The structures are two storeys high and consist of one bay. The front has 20th-century casement windows and a plank door on the right. The facade is mostly hidden by an irregular slate-roofed three-bay verandah supported by rustic wooden piers, which is covered with wisteria. The buildings are primarily listed for their group value.

Local climate

Court Cottage Virginia Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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