Barley Cost is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. A C18 Cottage.
Barley Cost
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-window-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Barley Cost, Duckpool Lane, West and Middle Chinnock
- OS grid reference
- ST 462 132
- Coordinates
- 50.91622, -2.76601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barley Cost is a cottage dating from the 18th century, constructed from local stone rubble with a thatched roof featuring coped gables and brick chimney stacks at both ends and in the middle. The building is two stories high and has four bays with slightly random window arrangements. The windows are timber casement types, some of an early design with leaded lights, and they have exposed timber lintels at the ground floor. The entrance doorway is in a heavy frame and is located in a thatched porch between the third and fourth bays. The cottage shows signs of having been extended at both ends. There is a pointed head window with a four-centre arch on the first floor of the west gable.
Local climate
Barley Cost receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
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