Milking Parlour 10 Metres South West of Lower Cockhill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Milking parlour.

Milking Parlour 10 Metres South West of Lower Cockhill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
broken-buttress-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Type
Milking parlour
OS grid reference
ST 625 311
Coordinates
51.0785, -2.53651
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The milking parlour, located 10 metres south-west of Lower Cockhill Farmhouse, dates from around 1400. It is constructed from roughly cut and squared Cary stone and features a corrugated iron roof. The building is single storey with an inserted floor at the north end and consists of four bays. On the road front, there are two blocked window openings and a blocked doorway, which has a heavy frame with part-shouldered posts that likely supported a pair of large doors. The south end is made of rendered block construction and has timber weatherboard cladding on the gable. Inside, the parlour showcases smooth-curved open cruck trusses, a saddle apex with a square set ridge, tenoned cambered collars, trenched purlins, and empty mortices that suggest the presence of former windbraces.

Local climate

Milking Parlour 10 Metres South West of Lower Cockhill Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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