Improvement Place is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1976. Cottage.
Improvement Place
- WRENN ID
- fossil-bracket-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Improvement Place, 1, Bulford Lane, Wellington
- OS grid reference
- ST 137 201
- Coordinates
- 50.97459, -3.23049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 1 Improvement Place is a mid-19th century, two-storey cottage located on the corner with Martins Close, and it is the last surviving cottage of its kind at the end of a terrace. The front is finished in stucco with incised coursing detail, and it has a hipped tile roof with a dormer facing south. The eaves project outwards, and there is one window with an incised lintel on each storey, featuring sashes with thin glazing bars. The doorway is positioned to the left of the front and includes an open pediment supported by pilasters, a round-headed fanlight, and a six-panel door. Additionally, there is a lean-to extension on the south side that projects into the lane.
Local climate
Improvement Place 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 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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