Penrose Cottage and Attached Section of Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Penrose Cottage and Attached Section of Wall
- WRENN ID
- former-keep-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Penrose Cottage and Attached Section of Wall, Water Lane, Butleigh, BA6 8SP
- OS grid reference
- ST 521 336
- Coordinates
- 51.10012, -2.68516
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penrose Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th to 17th century. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with a thatched roof featuring a coped verge and two brick ridge stacks. The building is single storey with an attic and has three bays. The ground floor has two and three-light casements, which are set under 20th-century concrete lintels, while the first floor features casements from the 19th century with "eyebrow" detailing. There is a door opening on the right side of the cottage, which contains a 20th-century door. To the left of the front, there is a short section of rubble wall that runs at right angles, capped with pantiles. Inside, the cottage has two inglenook fireplaces and a roof that includes windbracing.
Local climate
Penrose Cottage and Attached Section of Wall 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- 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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