Townsend Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Townsend Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-stone-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Townsend Cottage, Town End, Norton St. Philip
- OS grid reference
- ST 776 556
- Coordinates
- 51.2995, -2.32259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of rendered rubble stone and features a double Roman clay tile gabled roof with wooden bargeboards. The cottage has coursed rubble stone end chimney stacks with caps. It is two stories high with a two-window front and has an L-plan layout, including a lean-to on the left side where the entrance is located. The entrance consists of a 20th-century vertical boarded door set in a stop-chamfered wood frame. The windows are 19th-century, two-light wood casements set in step-chamfered stone mullion frames. There is a weathered string course at the eaves level, and a two-light, step-chamfered stone mullion window with six-pane casements is located in the right-hand return.
Local climate
Townsend 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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