Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1976. Cottage.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-facade-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Church Cottage, West Street, Somerton
- OS grid reference
- ST 489 285
- Coordinates
- 51.05371, -2.72951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 19th century. It is constructed of local lias stone that has been cut and squared, and it features a clay pantiled roof with plain verges and brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high with an attic and consists of a single bay. It has side margined plain sash windows, with the lower window set under a dovetailed stone lintel. To the left, there is a 20th-century part-glazed door beneath a timber lintel, and to the right, there are traces of a blocked doorway. In the centre of the roof, there is a raked roof dormer window. The interior has not been seen. Church Cottage is part of a varied row of buildings that contribute positively to the streetscape.
Local climate
Church Cottage 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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