Elm Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Cottage.

Elm Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
north-doorway-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Elm Tree Cottage, North Cadbury
OS grid reference
ST 645 276
Coordinates
51.04682, -2.50678
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elm Tree Cottage is a detached cottage dated 1725. It is built of local stone, rendered and colorwashed, with a thatched roof featuring a coped west gable and brick chimney stacks. The cottage has two storeys and three bays. The windows are horizontal bar casements, with a three-light window in the first bay and two-light windows in the other bays. There are added windows below the upper windows, which are cut into the thatch. Between the first and second bays, there is a pair of glazed doors under a timber lintel. A datestone reading "1.P.1725" is located under the eaves between the second and third bays. There is a 20th-century extension to the east. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Elm Tree Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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