The Woods is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Woods
- WRENN ID
- iron-cloister-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Woods, Kingweston Road, the Charltons, TA11 6AH
- OS grid reference
- ST 529 291
- Coordinates
- 51.06005, -2.67338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Woods is a detached cottage built in the late 18th century. It is constructed from local lias stone that has been cut and squared, topped with a thatched roof featuring coped gables and stone intermediate chimney stacks. The cottage has two storeys and a four-bay south elevation, which includes cross-glazed casement windows. There is a boarded entrance door located between the second and third bays, sheltered by a thatched hood. Additionally, there is a lean-to on the east gable and a small flat-roofed bay window on the west gable. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Woods receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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