Knoyle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Cottage.
Knoyle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rusted-rubblework-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Knoyle Cottage, the Plain, Norton St. Philip
- OS grid reference
- ST 773 559
- Coordinates
- 51.30189, -2.32559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knoyle Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed from roughly coursed rubble Doulting stone. It features a double Roman clay tile gabled roof with a coped left-hand end and brick chimney stacks at either end. The cottage has a two-storey façade with five windows and a central entrance. The entrance consists of a four-panel door set in a stone frame that includes an expressed keystone and an edge-moulded flat stone hood slab supported by carved brackets. The windows are 16-pane sash types set in bead-moulded stone frames.
Local climate
Knoyle 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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