Rock Cottage and Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. House.

Rock Cottage and Boundary Wall

WRENN ID
vast-lancet-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1985
Type
House
Address
Rock Cottage and Boundary Wall, Rock Street, Croscombe
OS grid reference
ST 591 444
Coordinates
51.19737, -2.58595
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rock Cottage is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is constructed of random rubble with a pantile roof featuring a coped verge and two brick stacks. The building has two storeys and consists of two bays. It includes two and three-light ovolo moulded stone-mullioned windows with stopped labels. The central door opening is fitted with a divided plank door. To the north of the cottage, there is an attached rubble boundary wall that is approximately 4 metres high and 10 metres long, topped with rough hewn capping.

Local climate

Rock Cottage and Boundary Wall receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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