Watercress Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Watercress Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-banister-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Watercress Cottage, Norton St. Philip, BA2 7RS
- OS grid reference
- ST 800 576
- Coordinates
- 51.31796, -2.28777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watercress Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Norton St. Philip, near Farleigh Hungerford. The cottage is built of coursed rubble Doulting stone, with squared quoins, and some parts are now rendered. It has a thatched, gabled roof with a quarter-hip on the southwest end and hipped dormers. The cottage follows an ‘L’ plan and features a central chimney stack. Windows have stone mullions and 1-, 2- and 3-lights, fitted with 19th-century timber casements containing two panes of glass. A 6-panel door is set within a chamfered moulded stone frame and has a 20th-century precast concrete hood.
Local climate
Watercress Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2012
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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