The Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1985. Cottage.
The Stores
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-spire-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Stores, Maperton Road, Charlton Horethorne
- OS grid reference
- ST 663 236
- Coordinates
- 51.01168, -2.48125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stores is a cottage dated 1734, built from locally sourced stone that has been cut and squared. It features a double Roman clay tile roof with coped gables and brick chimney stacks at either end. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. It includes small pane, two-light casement windows set beneath timber lintels. Between the bays, there is a plain ashlar surround to the doorway, which has a boarded door topped by a moulded stone flat hood supported by shaped brackets. A plaque displaying the date 1734 is positioned above the doorway. Additionally, there is a small one-storey shop extension on the west gable. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Stores receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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