The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-basalt-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Roman Road, Ilchester
- OS grid reference
- ST 523 230
- Coordinates
- 51.00526, -2.68026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a detached house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed from roughly cut and squared lias stone and features a thatched roof with plain gables and brick end chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays. The windows are casement style with cast iron lattices and small panes, featuring 'Y' traceried heads; the upper windows are two-light and the lower windows are three-light, with timber lintels above. The second bay on the lower level has a boarded door set in a rustic timber and thatch open porch, which is accessed by one step. Attached to the south gable is a long single-storey wing that has a hipped double Roman clay tiled roof and a brick chimney stack, with no windows facing the west roadside. The interior has not been seen. The Cottage is currently known as the Agnes Weston Sailer's Rest Home.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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