Potters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1998. House.

Potters Cottage

WRENN ID
nether-grate-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 October 1998
Type
House
Address
Potters Cottage, West Monkton
OS grid reference
ST 252 292
Coordinates
51.05763, -3.06731
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Potters Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, which was remodeled in the 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with plastered cob above and features a Bridgwater tile roof with gabled ends and a brick gable-end stack.

The building retains the high end of a three-room plan house, with the lower left end and cross-passage likely demolished during the 19th-century remodeling, resulting in a two-room plan cottage. The layout includes a large room on the left, which was formerly the hall and is heated by a gable-end stack, and a small unheated room on the right, which would have served as the inner room.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical two-window southeast front, featuring two windows on the ground floor and one on the first floor. The windows are small 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars. There is a doorway on the left with a plank door and a canopy. A similar casement is found at the rear and on the southwest end, where there is a projecting semi-circular oven.

Inside, the cottage has deeply chamfered cross-beams and edge-beams with hollow step stops, along with unchamfered joists. There is a plank partition between the hall and the inner room, which has scratch moulding on the hall side. The large fireplace includes a brick oven and curing chamber, and there are plank doors. The roof features a jointed cruck truss with a collar, purlins, and a diagonally-set ridgepiece, along with later common rafters.

Local climate

Potters Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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