April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. A C17 Cottage.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-outpost-wren
- 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
- April Cottage, Durston
- OS grid reference
- ST 287 281
- Coordinates
- 51.04802, -3.01714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century, 19th century, and late 20th century. The exterior features roughcast over random rubble and brick, with a break in the wall to the right of the center. It has a half-hipped thatched roof on the right and a brick stack at the left gable end. The building's plan suggests it was originally a single cell that has been enlarged to the right and extended at the rear.
The cottage is one and a half storeys tall and features many 20th-century paned casements. There are two dormers on the first floor, and on the ground floor, there is one casement window to the left of the entrance and two more in the extension to the right. A 20th-century thatched roof half-glazed porch leads to a plank door at the entrance. Inside, there is a rafter roof and an unusual survival of a reed partition in the attic storey.
Local climate
April Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% 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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