Police Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Cottage.
Police Cottages
- WRENN ID
- winter-flint-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Police Cottages, 1 and 2, Silver Street, Milverton
- OS grid reference
- ST 123 257
- Coordinates
- 51.02466, -3.25089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Police Cottages are a pair of cottages built in the early 19th century. They are constructed from red sandstone random rubble masonry and feature quoins, a slate roof with decorative ridge tiles, and brick stacks on the left and right. The cottages are two stories high with irregularly placed windows. On the first floor, there is a 16-pane sash window to the left, along with a 4-pane and a 12-pane sash window. The ground floor has two 16-pane sash windows positioned to the right of their respective entrances, all of which are topped with rusticated voussoirs. The doors are located to the left of the ground floor windows and are panelled in a 3x3 configuration, with square-headed three-light openings above them. The south side features a slate-hung gable end adorned with decorative pierced barge boards.
Local climate
Police Cottages 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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