Bramble Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. A Medieval Cottage.

Bramble Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 October 1987
Type
Cottage
Period
Medieval
Address
Bramble Cottage, Ilton
OS grid reference
ST 366 177
Coordinates
50.95529, -2.90265
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bramble Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 15th century and later. It is constructed from roughly cut and squared ham stone, with some ashlar dressings and rendered cob, topped by a thatched roof featuring a coped gable on the west side and a plain gable on the east. The cottage is single-storey with an attic and consists of four bays.

The windows include hollow-chamfered mullioned designs in chamfered recesses, with labels above; there are 3-light windows in bays 2 and a 4-light window in bay 4, all featuring rectangular leaded glass. Bay 1 has a lower-set 3-light horizontal-bar casement window, and similar windows are present in the attic above bays 2, 3, and 4, with the window in bay 2 being a 1985 addition, set into swept dormers. A boarded door in a heavy frame is located in the lower part of bay 3. At the rear, there is an outshut.

Although the interior was not seen, it is reported to have a cross-passage 3-room plan, with one post-and-truss inner wall made of wattle and daub, and a ceiling featuring a 4-panelled chamfer-beam. In the west gable, there is a large fireplace with a brick-lined oven and a curving chamber. The roof frame includes one smoke-blackened jointed cruck truss and one post and truss-frame.

Local climate

Bramble Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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