The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-footing-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, St Marys Street, Axbridge, BS26 2BN
- OS grid reference
- ST 431 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28727, -2.81594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house from the early 19th century. It has a rendered surface that is scribed to resemble ashlar stone, with a pilaster at the left end, wide eaves, and a pantile roof featuring a brick ridge stack. The building is two storeys high and has a single bay. It features 16-pane sash windows set within decorative architraves that have prominent keystones. To the right of the window on the ground floor, there is a late 19th-century glazed and panelled door. This door is topped by a flat wooden hood that is supported by fluted pilasters and two brackets. The Cottage is included in the listing mainly for its group value with other nearby structures.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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