Abbey Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1986. Cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Abbey Cottages
- WRENN ID
- vast-buttress-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1986
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Abbey Cottages, Silver Street, Muchelney, South Somerset, TA10 0DN
- OS grid reference
- ST 428 243
- Coordinates
- 51.01586, -2.81658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages dating from the early 19th century, situated on the south side of Silver Street in Lower Muchelney. The cottages are constructed of local lias stone with Ham stone dressings, featuring a double Roman clay tile roof with stepped coped gables and brick chimney stacks. They are single-storey with attics, arranged in two bays. The windows are chamfered mullioned, with square labels and cast iron diamond lattice casements. Bay 1 has a 4-light window, and Bay 2 a 3-light window. Above the second bay is a 2-light window within a coped gabled dormer, which also has a laylight on its left side. Between the bays, and to the right of Bay 2, are two boarded doors set within plain chamfered surrounds with square heads and labels. An east-facing gable contains a 3-light and 2-light window to the upper level, with a 20th-century steel casement below. The west gable has 20th-century small-pane casements and a single-storey lean-to addition. The interior of the cottages has not been inspected.
Local climate
Abbey Cottages receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1997
- 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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