Pound Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. A Medieval Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Pound Cottage
- WRENN ID
- former-banister-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Pound Cottage, Hurds Hill, Huish Episcopi, TA10 0NQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 410 264
- Coordinates
- 51.03439, -2.84155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pound Cottage is a detached cottage dating back to the 15th century with later additions. It is constructed from local lias stone, cut and squared, with a thatched roof. The east gable has a stepped cope, and the west end is hipped. Brick chimney stacks are also present. The cottage has an ‘L’ shape and two storeys. The front elevation has four bays, with the first bay projecting. There are timber casement windows, of various types. Bays 3 and 4 have no windows on the upper floor. Bay 3 features a wide boarded door set in a heavy frame, while bay 4 represents an extension that has been converted into a garage. The rear south wall has two three-light timber-framed windows with diagonal set mullions. Inside, the east wing contains two cruck roof trusses, blackened by smoke, and lacking wind braces, likely representing the remains of a medieval house. The main wing also features a cruck derivative roof truss and traces of a smoke hood. Some wattle and daub partitioning remains within the roof space.
Local climate
Pound 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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