The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. A Early 19th century Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-lintel-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Address
- The Cottage, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 093 289
- Coordinates
- 51.05242, -3.29474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on the north side of Ford in Wiveliscombe Without. It features a rendered exterior with quoin strips and a two-span slate roof, along with rendered stacks. The building has two storeys and is arranged in a 1:3 bay configuration. The windows are sashes with glazing bars. There is a decorative wrought iron porch with a lead canopy positioned to the centre right, and a fluted pilaster doorcase that frames a modern partially glazed door.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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