Ruby Cottage the Thatched Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1984. Cottage.

Ruby Cottage the Thatched Cottages

WRENN ID
strange-chimney-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 August 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Ruby Cottage the Thatched Cottages, Chewton Mendip
OS grid reference
ST 597 527
Coordinates
51.27241, -2.57877
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ruby Cottage and No 35, known as The Thatched Cottages, are a pair of semi-detached cottages dating from 1785, as indicated by the datestone above the doorway of No 35. The cottages feature rubble walling, thatched roofs with coped verges, and central and gable rubble stacks.

No 35 is two storeys tall with two bays. The first floor has two-light wooden casements with horizontal bars, pilaster jambs, and lintels carved with an axe and trowel on the left and level and dividers on the right, along with broad stone cills. The ground floor has similar two-light casements, with a central hollow chamfered mullion and double stooled cills, beneath crude square drips with dropped ends. A central plank door is sheltered by a thatched hood and has a crude drip similar to the windows, positioned above the ornamental datestone.

Ruby Cottage, also two storeys and two bays, has a central plank door with a small thatched hood and a datestone above, flanked by miniature columns. To the left of the door are two-light wooden casements with horizontal bars, a hollow chamfered mullion, and double stooled cills. To the right, there is a similar two-light wooden casement but without a mullion, above a single wooden casement. The cottage has a pantiled lean-to extension on the left side, a small direct glazed light at the back, and a three-light mullioned window.

Inside, there are two winder staircases and two fireplaces with broad wooden bressumers.

Local climate

Ruby Cottage the Thatched Cottages receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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