Rookery Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1976. Cottage.
Rookery Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-latch-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rookery Cottage, 6, Rookery Terrace, Wellington
- OS grid reference
- ST 134 203
- Coordinates
- 50.97641, -3.23367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Cottage is a tall, two-storey building dating from the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed of stucco and features a slate roof with gable end bargeboards that have pendants. The cottage has one window on each storey, with cornices on volutes, and the windows are three-light casements. There is a plaque inscribed "Rookery Cottage" located under the eaves. To the right, there is a lean-to extension. The solid porch, which has a pitched roof and a pointed entrance, faces north.
Local climate
Rookery Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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