Ford Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. House.
Ford Bridge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-keep-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ford Bridge Cottage, Station Road, Milverton
- OS grid reference
- ST 125 260
- Coordinates
- 51.02698, -3.24874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford Bridge Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble masonry with hammer dressed quoins and features a slate roof and stone stacks. The building is two stories high and has three bays. It includes sash windows with a single vertical glazing bar and a six-panel double door set in a moulded ashlar surround, complete with a fanlight above. At the rear, there is a pantiled outshot that has been enlarged into a two-story flat-roofed extension at the southeast end. This cottage occupies a prominent position at the entrance to Milverton from the Taunton Road.
Local climate
Ford Bridge Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- No related consent applications matched
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