The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1956. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-attic-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, North Street, Milverton
- OS grid reference
- ST 123 259
- Coordinates
- 51.0261, -3.25166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century that was refronted in the early 19th century. It features a pebbledash exterior with a pilaster quoin strip on the right side. The building has a slate roof and a large rendered stack on the left, with a brick stack on the right. It is two stories tall and has two bays, with 12-pane sash windows on either side of a central doorway. The entrance is highlighted by an ashlar flat roof porch supported by console brackets, and the door itself is a six-panel design.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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