Swiss Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Stable block. 1 related planning application.
Swiss Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-footing-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Stable block
- Address
- Swiss Cottage, Linden Grove, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 221 251
- Coordinates
- 51.02038, -3.11105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century stable block, likely part of the original estate associated with numbers 36 to 90 (even) Staplegrove Road. The building stands at a right angle to the street. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble walls and features a triangular pediment rising into a pantile roof, with projecting eaves supported by curved brackets. There are three windows, all sashes with glazing bars. A canted bay window is located centrally on the ground floor, and small lean-to extensions are present on both the left and right sides. Swiss Cottage forms part of a group of buildings along Staplegrove Road, including numbers 86 to 90 (even), a summerhouse at the Language Centre, a cottage, Weir House, Weir Lodge, and a pair of gate piers.
Local climate
Swiss 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 — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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