Court Barton Cottage and Attached Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. House.

Court Barton Cottage and Attached Wall and Railings

WRENN ID
young-fireplace-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1976
Type
House
Address
Court Barton Cottage and Attached Wall and Railings, 13, Ilminster
OS grid reference
ST 359 146
Coordinates
50.92795, -2.91228
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Court Barton Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with eaves raised and alterations made in the 19th century. It is built of limestone rubble and has a slate roof, with brick stacks located to the left of the center and at the right gable end. The cottage has an L-shaped plan, consisting of two units, with a 19th-century rear wing on the right. It stands two storeys high and features a two-window range. On the first floor, there are two three-light casement windows from around 1980 positioned across the eaves. Below the right window, there is a similar window under a concrete lintel, while to the left of the 20th-century door, there is a hollow-moulded, mullioned four-light window. The door is sheltered by a flat stone porch supported on brackets.

Inside, the cottage has been altered, but it retains an open fireplace with a large Moolham stone lintel that backs onto a central passage. The axial beams in both rooms have run-out chamfers. A 17th-century roof truss beneath the new roof shows blackening on the inner faces, indicating its age. There is also evidence of a timber-framed partition to the left, suggesting that the original 17th-century house extended for another bay in that direction.

Additionally, there are subsidiary features including a late 19th-century brick retaining wall that curves to the right and is attached to the southwest corner at ground level. The property is flanked by widely-spaced railings on Ham Hill stone capping, which surround a central gate made of long and short railings, all topped with cast-iron spearhead finials.

Local climate

Court Barton Cottage and Attached Wall and Railings receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% 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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