The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- noble-flue-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Puckington
- OS grid reference
- ST 375 180
- Coordinates
- 50.95877, -2.8899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house from the 18th century located in Puckington Village. It is constructed of rubble with coped verges and a thatched roof, featuring two brick stacks and one ashlar stack. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with four bays. On the ground floor, there are three-light casements, with the outer pair having horizontal glazing bars and the centre featuring iron moveable lights, all supported by wooden lintels. The first floor has semi-circular head two-light casements with simple Gothick heads and "bonnet" hoods. The central door opening contains a six-panelled door, with the top four panels being glazed, and is sheltered by a thatched porch that also has a "bonnet" hood. The outer door is six-panelled with the top four panels glazed.
Local climate
The 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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