The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-flue-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, 8, Church Lane, Bicknoller
- OS grid reference
- ST 110 394
- Coordinates
- 51.14745, -3.27291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was altered in the mid-19th century. It features roughcast over rubble and has a steeply pitched Bridgwater patent tiled roof. There are brick stacks located at the left gable end, above the entrance, and another rising midway from the roof between the third and fourth bays. The building has a three-cell lobby entry with a stair bay projection at the rear of the lobby. It is two storeys high and has five bays. The mid-19th century windows include 2-, 3-, and 4-light casements with many panes. Notably, there are remains of an ovolo moulded mullion window in the second bay to the right over the entrance. The porch has a roughcast random rubble arch head and side lights, and the roof is hipped with Bridgwater patent tiles.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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