Wayside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. House.

Wayside Cottage

WRENN ID
sharp-corbel-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1984
Type
House
Address
Wayside Cottage, 15, Warminster Road, Beckington
OS grid reference
ST 801 518
Coordinates
51.26504, -2.28557
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wayside Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of random rubble with a pantile roof and features end brick stacks. The facade is symmetrical, with two storeys and three bays. It has narrow sash windows with glazing bars, each set in plain stone surrounds and flanked by a pair of louvred decorative shutters. The central door opening is also in a moulded stone surround and contains a late 19th century two-panelled door with a transom light above.

Local climate

Wayside Cottage 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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