Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Bell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-keystone-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bell Cottage, Church Street, Norton St. Philip, BA2 7NZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 770 557
- Coordinates
- 51.3001, -2.33021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bell Cottage is a detached house dating from the 17th century, with later alterations and additions. It is constructed of random rubble Doulting stone, featuring some ashlar stone at the quoins. The roof is gabled and covered with plain concrete tiles, with end chimney stacks. The front elevation has two large gables, with the right-hand gable projecting forward. On the left side, there is a recently constructed gabled wing. The house is two stories high and has a three-window front. Between the second and third windows, there is a projecting entrance porch with a gable roof. The entrance features a 20th-century boarded and capped door set in a chamfered stone frame, topped with a flat pointed arch. The windows are generally two-light, with moulded stone mullions and leaded lights set in metal casements, and stopped drip moulds above. The third window on the ground floor and a window in the east gable end have four-centred heads. In the apex of the right-hand gable, there is a blocked oval window with four keys.
Local climate
Bell Cottage 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
- 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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