Slapes is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Slapes
- WRENN ID
- gilded-cinder-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Slapes, Langford Lane, Kingston St. Mary
- OS grid reference
- ST 210 275
- Coordinates
- 51.04198, -3.12761
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Slapes is a cottage dating from the 16th to 17th century, which was restored in the late 20th century. It features roughcast, likely over cob, with a raking buttress at the southeast corner and a thatched roof. The cottage has been fitted with rebuilt stacks at the gable ends. Its layout consists of three cells and a cross passage, which may have been altered over time. The building is one and a half storeys high and has eyebrow dormers with three-light wooden pointed arched mullions on the left, dating from the mid-19th century, while other windows include two and three-light 20th-century metal casements. To the left of the entrance is a wooden two-light casement, and there is a 20th-century ribbed door with a thatched porch. The interior has only been partially observed, revealing a chamfered lintel above the fireplace in the left gable end and chamfered beads with enriched stops.
Local climate
Slapes receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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