Wheelwrights Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Wheelwrights Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-nave-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wheelwrights Cottage, the Green, High Ham, TA10 9BZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 425 310
- Coordinates
- 51.07563, -2.82167
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheelwrights Cottage is a cottage, formerly two or more, dating from the 18th century. It is built of local lias stone that is cut and squared, with a clay pantiled roof. The north portion features stepped coped gables and brick chimney stacks. The cottage is single-storey with attics and has three plus two bays.
The windows are small-pane casements, mostly with two lights. The upper set is located in tiled and timbered dormers, while the lower set is under timber lintels. The lower bay 1 has a part-glazed door, likely from the 18th century, with a small sidelight. To the right of bay 2, there is a 20th-century boarded door in a 20th-century open timber porch. Lower bay 3 features a three-light window. There is an extension that matches the original structure, which was probably a separate cottage at one time, set forward slightly and with a small window in the return. The plain window in lower bay 1 has a dormer above it, and there is a larger three-light window in lower bay 2. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Wheelwrights Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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