Shovel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. Cottage.
Shovel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-doorway-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shovel Cottage, Cliff Road, North Petherton
- OS grid reference
- ST 283 324
- Coordinates
- 51.08706, -3.02474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shovel Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Cliff Road in North Petherton. It features roughcast walls and a thatched roof with brick end stacks. The cottage has a cross-passage plan and is a single storey with an attic, consisting of three bays. The ground floor has 19th-century two and three-light casements, while the first floor has 20th-century casements set in thatched gabled dormers. There is a central door opening with a studded plank door in a moulded surround, and a 20th-century trellis porch. At the rear, there is a later wing built at right angles to the main structure. Inside, the cottage has exposed ceiling beams and a fireplace with a broad wooden bressuier.
Local climate
Shovel Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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