Elm Cottage and Forecourt Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Elm Cottage and Forecourt Railings
- WRENN ID
- western-stronghold-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elm Cottage and Forecourt Railings, Brent Street, Brent Knoll, TA9 4EH
- OS grid reference
- ST 333 506
- Coordinates
- 51.25098, -2.95626
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century. It features Flemish bond brickwork, a tiled roof with coped verges, and end brick stacks. The building has a symmetrical frontage with two storeys and three bays, which include 16-pane sash windows with rubbed brick voussoirs. The door opening is located on the right side and has a six-panelled door topped by a 20th-century wooden hood supported by two wooden posts. The front is adorned with decorative railings set on a brick plinth, featuring wrought-iron rails with spear caps and paired gates on the right that match the style of the railings.
Local climate
Elm Cottage and Forecourt Railings receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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