Palairet Cottage, Screen Wall and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Detached house.

Palairet Cottage, Screen Wall and Gate Piers

WRENN ID
muted-panel-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1984
Type
Detached house
Address
Palairet Cottage, Screen Wall and Gate Piers, Church Street, Norton St. Philip
OS grid reference
ST 771 557
Coordinates
51.30022, -2.32962
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Palairet Cottage is a detached house dating from the early 18th century, constructed of random rubble Doulting stone. It features a Welsh slate roof with a coped gable and end chimney stacks. The building is two stories high with a gable end facing the road, presenting a two-window front and a central entrance. To the left, there is a later extension. The entrance has a 20th-century door set beneath a late 20th-century stone porch with a gable roof. The sash windows are framed in plain ashlar stone surrounds, with flat stone lintels; the ground floor has 20 panes, while the first floor has 16 panes. Accompanying the cottage is a screen wall made of random rubble Doulting stone, approximately 1.5 meters high, topped with flat coping. There are three Doulting stone gate piers, which are dressed with semi-circular tops and deep sunken panels on both the front and back.

Local climate

Palairet Cottage, Screen Wall and Gate Piers receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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