Wilton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Lodge.
Wilton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-frieze-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Wilton Cottage, Fons George, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 225 238
- Coordinates
- 51.00893, -3.10563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wilton Cottage is a possibly mid-19th century lodge located on the west edge of Vivary Park. It features a triple-gabled design with whitewashed brick. The central section of the cottage projects slightly forward and has a decorative tile roof, while the side sections are covered with slate roofs. The cottage is adorned with curved and fretted bargeboards and plain pilasters on the central section. On the ground floor, there are blocked pointed arches in the wings, with original casement windows to the right. The centre gable displays a St Andrew's cross within a shield. Additionally, there are brick gatepiers at the front, topped with ball finials.
Local climate
Wilton 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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