Japonica Cottage Laburnam Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Japonica Cottage Laburnam Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-arch-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Japonica Cottage Laburnam Cottage, Norton Fitzwarren, TA2 6QS
- OS grid reference
- ST 197 258
- Coordinates
- 51.02615, -3.14587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Japonica Cottage and Laburnam Cottage form a pair of detached cottages dating to the early 19th century. They are constructed with a rubble core, rendered on the exterior, and feature a hipped roof covered in concrete tiles. Brick stacks are visible on the gable ends and centrally. The cottages have a two-cell and cross-passage plan, arranged over two storeys and four bays. Above the entrances are blank panels. The windows are 3-light wooden casements with leading. Plank doors with inset-lights are situated between the first and second bays on the left and right sides, and are sheltered by lean-to, trellis-work porches. The returns of the cottages display full-height, pointed-arch inset panels.
Local climate
Japonica Cottage Laburnam Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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