Dorcas Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Dorcas Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-render-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dorcas Cottage, Trendle Lane, Bicknoller, TA4 4EG
- OS grid reference
- ST 111 395
- Coordinates
- 51.1484, -3.27204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dorcas Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th to early 18th century. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble and features a thatched roof with coped verges. The building has brick stacks at the left and right gable ends, as well as one rising from the eaves on the facade to the right of center. The cottage is two stories high and has three bays, with 2- and 3-light leaded casement windows. The ground floor includes an inserted canted bay with a slate pentice hood, which continues to the right as a porch supported by two wooden poles. The entrance is a square-headed 20th-century plank door.
Local climate
Dorcas Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2008
- 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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