Ivy Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to West is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Ivy Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to West
- WRENN ID
- solitary-stone-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ivy Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to West, TA3 7BA
- OS grid reference
- ST 219 192
- Coordinates
- 50.96693, -3.11326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ivy Cottage and the adjoining cottage date from the late 16th to early 17th century, with significant alterations in the late 20th century. The cottages are constructed with roughcast over rubble, with asbestos slate roofs. The left gable end has a coped verge, and there are brick stacks to the right gable end and to the left of the cross passage in Ivy Cottage, alongside the right gable end of the adjacent cottage.
The original plan for Ivy Cottage comprised three cells and a cross passage, featuring an unheated inner room. It is now a two-cell and cross passage layout, while the adjoining cottage is of a two-cell plan. The building has two and one-and-a-half storeys and has a 2:4 bay arrangement. It features modern metal casement windows. Ivy Cottage has leaded windows with gabled dormers, a large four-light window to the right of the entrance, and a small window between the third and fourth bays to the right. The entrance to Ivy Cottage is between the first and second bays to the right, with a modern studded plank door and a gabled porch. The adjoining cottage has an entrance between the first and second bays to the left. A two-light chamfered mullioned window is reportedly located at the rear of Ivy Cottage.
Inside the adjoining cottage is a stud and plank partition. The interior of Ivy Cottage was not inspected, but it is said to contain chamfered spine beams with step and runout stops, a diamond panel of plasterwork in the upper storey, and three pairs of jointed cruck trusses. An early photograph, held by the owner, demonstrates that both chimneys had shallow projections, one to the left of the entrance and the other on the right return gable end—where a bread oven is now located. The purpose of these projections is not known.
Local climate
Ivy Cottage and Cottage Adjoining to West receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2000
- 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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