Shirley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Shirley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- open-mantel-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shirley Cottage, West Street, Somerton
- OS grid reference
- ST 488 285
- Coordinates
- 51.0536, -2.73088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shirley Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from local stone that is roughly cut and squared, topped with a clay pantiled roof featuring simple gables and stone chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and an irregular arrangement of two bays. The windows are small pane casements with two lights, set in plain recesses, with no window in the lower bay of the first section. There is a boarded door with a plain stone lintel located to the right of the second bay. A lean-to structure is present against the east gable. The interior has not been seen, but the cottage appears to have changed little since it was built.
Local climate
Shirley 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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