Blackford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House. 5 related planning applications.

Blackford Cottage

WRENN ID
patient-sill-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 1985
Type
House
Address
Blackford Cottage, High Street, Wedmore, BS28 4NN
OS grid reference
ST 409 477
Coordinates
51.22581, -2.84677
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blackford Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of random rubble with a hipped slate roof and has end brick stacks. The building is symmetrical, standing two storeys high with three bays, featuring 12-pane sash windows that have brick surrounds and brick voussoirs. The central door opening contains a six-panelled door topped by a fanlight with radiating glazing bars.

Local climate

Blackford Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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