Cottage south of Women's Institute is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Cottage south of Women's Institute
- WRENN ID
- ragged-postern-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cottage south of Women's Institute, Little Green, Mells, BA11 3QZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 724 486
- Coordinates
- 51.23656, -2.3962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century cottage located south of the Women's Institute in Mells. The cottage is built of Doulting rubble with a thatched roof and brick stacks at each end, the western stack having been lowered. The facade is picturesque and symmetrical. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with two bays, the upper bays gabled. It features three-light wooden casements with ovolo moulding, dating to the 20th century. A central plank door is sheltered by a 20th-century thatched hood. A modern extension has been added to the rear.
Inside, the roof structure is a modern replacement. The room on the right-hand side contains an open fireplace with an oak bessumer. The original ground floor rooms retain chamfered joists to the ceiling.
The cottage is a good example of a small 18th-century building and retains much of its original character and fabric, including original internal features.
Local climate
Cottage south of Women's Institute 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 2014
- 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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