Wheel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. House.

Wheel Cottage

WRENN ID
north-casement-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1955
Type
House
Address
Wheel Cottage, Bishops Hull Road, Bishop's Hull
OS grid reference
ST 203 246
Coordinates
51.01577, -3.13689
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wheel Cottage is a house from the early 19th century. It features a rendered exterior that is grooved to resemble ashlar stone, a hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, and brick stacks that rise from the eaves. The building has a double pile design and is two storeys high with two bays. The first floor has 4-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 8-pane sash windows. There is a central doorway that is semi-circular headed and recessed, which contains a 6-panel door topped with a leaded fanlight. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Wheel Cottage 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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