Lamb Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Cottage.

Lamb Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1961
Type
Cottage
Address
Lamb Cottage, 4, Palmer Street, South Petherton
OS grid reference
ST 431 170
Coordinates
50.9499, -2.81126
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lamb Cottage is a detached cottage, likely built in the early 18th century. It features a near-ashlar facade made of Ham stone, with coursed rubble on the sides and rear. The cottage has a thatched roof with a coped west gable and a half-hipped east gable, along with brick chimney stacks.

The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are hollow-chamfered mullioned types set in chamfered recesses, except for the lower bay 1, which has a wave-mould recess. The upper bay 3 has a three-light window, while the lower bays 1 and 3 have four-light windows, both with individual labels. The mullions in bay 1 have been adapted, and the mullions have been removed from bay 3. The upper bays 1 and 2 contain early pattern casement windows with vertical iron bars on the inside and rectangular leaded lights, with bay 1 having three lights and bay 2 having two lights.

In the lower bay 2, there is a cambered-arched doorway in a rectangular recess with incised spandrels, which has no label. The doorway features a boarded door on a moulded frame, accessed by five steps. There is a raked buttress at the south-east corner, possibly a remnant of a demolished building. The east gable is rendered and has 20th-century metal windows with rectangular leaded lights, and there is an outshut at the rear.

To the west gable, there is a long office building that may be in separate ownership and is not of special interest. The interior has not been seen, but it is reported to have had a two-room cross passage plan, with two ceiling beams that are chamfered with run-out stops, though there is little else of interest. The roof features collar beam trusses.

Local climate

Lamb Cottage 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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