Trinity Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 2000. House. 1 related planning application.

Trinity Cottage

WRENN ID
wild-nave-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 May 2000
Type
House
Address
Trinity Cottage, 5, St Andrew Street, Wells, BA5 2UW
OS grid reference
ST 552 459
Coordinates
51.2114, -2.64197
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Trinity Cottage is a house located on the north side of St Andrew Street in Wells. It dates from the late 18th century and has undergone some alterations in the mid-19th century. The building is rendered and colourwashed, featuring a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and partly rendered brick chimney stacks. The structure has a symmetrical parallel range plan, but the front range has been modified, lacking a rear slope at its west end.

The cottage is two storeys high with attics and consists of three bays. It has a plinth and a cornice with a timber box gutter on a coved cornice. The outer bays contain sash windows, which are plain below and have 12 panes above. In the center, there is a 20th-century panelled door with a square transom-light in a plain surround, and above the door is a blind panel with an ovolo mould architrave, impost blocks, and a keystone. The ground-floor windows feature 'floating' keystones, and all sills are made of stone. There are also three 2-light 20th-century casement windows in gabled dormers, with slating on the gables and cheeks.

The site has been occupied since at least the 13th century when the street was known as Byestewel. The current property was likely rebuilt around the same time as Nos 4 and 6, with which it shares some architectural details. It is set back approximately 300 meters from these adjoining units.

Local climate

Trinity Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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