Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1973. Folly.
Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-pedestal-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1973
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- Keeper's Cottage, Hemington
- OS grid reference
- ST 738 529
- Coordinates
- 51.27484, -2.37589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage is a folly dated 1581, with a further date of 1725, built for the Bamfylde family. The structure is made of coursed rubble with dressed quoins and features a slate roof with coped verges, one of which has a finial at its apex. The building is square in plan, two storeys high with an attic, and has a frontage of two bays. It includes 2-light moulded stone-mullioned windows, which are also found on the returns. The attic features unusual corbelled canted oriels, each with a 2-light stone-mullioned window on all faces. There is a door opening on the right return, framed in dressed stone and leading to a plank door. A 20th-century extension at the rear is not of special interest.
Local climate
Keeper's Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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