Trap Lamp Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. A C19 Cottage.
Trap Lamp Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-iron-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Trap Lamp Cottage, Old Coach Road, Compton Bishop
- OS grid reference
- ST 417 547
- Coordinates
- 51.28899, -2.83728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Trap Lamp Cottage is a cottage that is part of a row, dating from the early 19th century. The building is rendered with a pantile roof and features two end brick ridge stacks. It has a symmetrical design with two storeys and two bays, which include flush mounted 12-pane sash windows. The central door opening contains a 19th-century two-panelled door, topped by a "tent" hood supported by thin iron brackets. In front of the cottage, there is a small forecourt enclosed by simple pattern wrought-iron railings.
Local climate
Trap Lamp Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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