Drum Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. Cottage.
Drum Cottages
- WRENN ID
- knotted-alcove-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Drum Cottages, Drum Lane, Mells
- OS grid reference
- ST 724 489
- Coordinates
- 51.23903, -2.39592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drum Cottages are two cottages dating from the 17th century, constructed from Doulting and local limestone rubble with thatched roofs. They feature uneven height eaves and have four brick stacks. The cottages are arranged in an "L" plan, creating a picturesque appearance. They are one storey with an attic; the left side has three bays with casement windows, and a virtually central door opening leads to a plank door. The right side has one bay in the gable with similar casements, and a door opening set back to the right under a catslide roof, also leading to a plank door. The ground floor room on the left includes an open fireplace with a passive wooden lintel and stop-chamfered beams to the ceiling.
Local climate
Drum Cottages 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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