Herne Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Cottage.

Herne Cottage

WRENN ID
iron-mantel-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Herne Cottage, Higher Burton, East Coker
OS grid reference
ST 537 133
Coordinates
50.91804, -2.65972
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Herne Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed from locally sourced stone that has been cut and squared, featuring near ashlar quoins and a thatched roof with plain verges. It has a central brick chimney stack and is a single-storey building with an attic. The southeast elevation consists of six bays. The entrance doorway is located under a thatched porch in bay one. Bays two and three have 20th-century small pane casements, while bay four features a three-light plain casement window. Bay five contains a boarded door in a heavy frame, and bay six has a two-light casement window, all of which are topped with exposed timber lintels. Above bays three and four, there are small casement windows set into the thatch. To the northeast, there is a one-storey return wing. The rear elevation has 18th-century windows with rectangular leaded lights set into the thatch, as well as a small angled bay window with a stepped lead roof, which may date from the 19th century. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Herne Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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