Woodbine Cottage, with Front Boundary Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Semi-detached house.

Woodbine Cottage, with Front Boundary Railings

WRENN ID
winding-step-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 October 1987
Type
Semi-detached house
Address
Woodbine Cottage, with Front Boundary Railings, 1, Townsend, Montacute
OS grid reference
ST 498 168
Coordinates
50.94847, -2.71531
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Woodbine Cottage is a semi-detached house dating from the early 19th century. It features a ham stone ashlar facade, with coursed rubble on the sides and rear, and a Welsh slate roof that has a shallow pitch between coped gables. The house has a brick chimney that sits on stone bases. It is two storeys high with three bays. The windows are sash style, consisting of 16 panes set in plain openings. In the lower bay two, there is a four-fielded-panel door within a plain opening, which is sheltered by a timber lattice porch topped with a bell-hip sheet metal roof. The interior has not been seen.

At each corner of the house, there is a projecting stone wall with angled coping that rises about one metre high. Between these walls, railings extend across the frontage, featuring alternate small loops and arrowheads set on a low stone wall, although the gate is missing. These elements enhance the setting of the house, which is prominently located facing down South Street towards the entrance of Montacute House.

Local climate

Woodbine Cottage, with Front Boundary Railings receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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