The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, Owl Street, Kingsbury Episcopi
OS grid reference
ST 429 189
Coordinates
50.96728, -2.8143
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the south side of Owl Street in East Lambrook. It is built from whitewashed brick resting on a rubble plinth, with a brick chimney and a thatched roof. The building has a simple style and is rectangular in shape, consisting of two storeys and two bays. It features three-light casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, and the ground floor has 20th-century shutters. There is a door opening on the left side, which is a ribbed door.

Local climate

The Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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