The Riggs is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. Cottage.
The Riggs
- WRENN ID
- muted-slate-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Riggs, Old Way, Ilton
- OS grid reference
- ST 357 169
- Coordinates
- 50.94882, -2.91654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Riggs is a detached cottage dating from around 1800. It is built from local stone, which is rendered and colourwashed, and features a thatched roof with half-hips. The cottage has brick end chimney stacks that are also colourwashed and have traditional baffles. It is a single-storey building with an attic and consists of three bays.
On the ground floor, there are two-light horizontal-bar casement windows, with an additional single-light window added to the left of the first bay. In the attic, there are three-light casement windows set into the roof, with pointed-arch lights; the left two are rectangular-leaded and have iron-framed opening lights. Between the first and second bays, there is a projecting porch that is rendered and has a slate roof, featuring an early 20th-century pattern inner door. There is also a lean-to structure with a triple-roll clay tiled roof against the east gable. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Riggs receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
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