Coursley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Coursley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-lead-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Coursley Cottage, Lydeard St. Lawrence
- OS grid reference
- ST 141 331
- Coordinates
- 51.09077, -3.22733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coursley Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century and mid-20th century. It is constructed from red sandstone random rubble and features a double Roman tile roof that is hipped to the left. A large external stepped stone stack is located on the facade, and there is a brick stable gable end rear extension.
The layout includes an entrance in the outer bay on the left, leading to a cross passage with doorways on the left and right. There are two rooms to the left and a rear extension, which likely originally housed another room to the right of the cross passage, possibly a kitchen. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has three bays.
Notable exterior features include large 20th-century metal casements in the two dormers on the left, a 20th-century wooden two-light window on the right, a 17th-century leaded cruciform window to the left of the stack, and a 20th-century metal window to the right. The entrance is located in the outer bay on the left.
Inside, the cottage has a flagstone cross passage and a good square-headed plank and muntin screen on the left, along with chamfered beams.
Local climate
Coursley Cottage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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