Philpotts Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Philpotts Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-cornice-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Philpotts Cottage, North Street, Norton St. Philip, BA2 7LE
- OS grid reference
- ST 773 559
- Coordinates
- 51.30192, -2.32569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Philpotts Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, situated on the east side of North Street in Norton St. Philip. The construction uses coursed rubble Doulting stone with ashlar quoins, and the roof is gabled with double Roman clay tiles. The house is two storeys high with a two-window front. An entrance is located on the left-hand side with a 20th-century vertical boarded door set in a square hood and a chamfered stone door frame. There are two 12-pane sash windows with stone frames on the ground floor. A similar single-light window is located on the first floor, positioned above the entrance.
Local climate
Philpotts 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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