Batch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
Batch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-buttress-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Batch Cottage, High Street, Wookey, BA5 1JZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 517 458
- Coordinates
- 51.20979, -2.69168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Batch Cottage is a house from the early 19th century, although its core may be older. It has a roughcast exterior and a triple Roman tile roof with brick ridge stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of four bays. On the first floor, there are two and three-light casements, while the ground floor features 16-pane sash windows with exposed sash boxes. The right ground floor window is flanked by 12-pane fixed light casements. The entrance is located in the second bay and consists of a six-panelled door, with the top four panels being glazed. A hood supported by slender iron brackets covers the door.
Local climate
Batch Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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