Japonica Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Cottage.
Japonica Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-newel-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Japonica Cottage, 342, High Street, Hardington Mandeville
- OS grid reference
- ST 511 114
- Coordinates
- 50.90031, -2.69632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Japonica Cottage is a cottage that is part of a pair and has origins dating back to the 16th century. It is constructed from local stone rubble and is whitewashed, featuring ashlar quoins and copings. The roof is plain clay tile with a coped gable on the south side and has a brick chimney stack at one end. The cottage is single-storey with an attic and consists of three bays. It has casement windows with exposed timber lintels, and the upper windows in the first and third bays are set into raked dormers. There is a stone and tile porch from the 20th century located between the first and second bays. The interior has not been seen but is reported to include jointed cruck trusses and an altered fireplace, along with an old stair window at the rear. Japonica Cottage is attached on the north side to No. 343.
Local climate
Japonica Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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