Marlpits Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. House.
Marlpits Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-glass-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Marlpits Cottage, Fiddington
- OS grid reference
- ST 209 403
- Coordinates
- 51.15719, -3.13221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marlpits Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, marked on the Ordnance Survey map as Marlpits Farmhouse. It features roughcast walls with a noticeable batter and a pantile roof, along with two brick end stacks, one of which was truncated at the time of re-survey in June 1984. The cottage is designed as a two-unit, cross-passage house, standing two storeys high with three bays. It has two-light casement windows with glazing bars, and the ground floor windows are topped with slated pentices supported by ornamental wooden brackets. There is a small stairlight to the right of the central door opening, which has a plank door and a later corrugated asbestos porch. Inside, there is a large ground floor room that includes a broad fireplace with a wooden bressummer and exposed ceiling beams featuring step and run-out stops. A well for a former winder staircase is present, although the stairs have since been removed.
Local climate
Marlpits 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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