Duchess Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. A C19 Cottage.
Duchess Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-pavement-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Duchess Cottage, Main Road, Long Load
- OS grid reference
- ST 464 230
- Coordinates
- 51.00449, -2.76397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Duchess Cottage is a cottage located on Main Road, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from local grey lias stone that has been cut and squared, topped with a triple-roll clay tiled roof that has a shallow pitch and coped gables, along with brick chimney stacks. The cottage has two storeys and three bays. It features horizontal bar casement windows with two lights, which are situated under large stone lintels. In the lower bay two, there is a boarded door set in a simple opening. Although the interior has not been seen, it is noted to have a cross passage two-room plan with a later lean-to at the rear. Attached to the north side of Duchess Cottage is Rose Cottage.
Local climate
Duchess 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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