The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-casement-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, High Street, Norton St. Philip
- OS grid reference
- ST 774 558
- Coordinates
- 51.30142, -2.32481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the northeast side of High Street in Norton St. Philip. It features a cement-rendered exterior and a double Roman clay tile gabled roof with brick end chimney stacks. The building is two stories high and has a three-window front. The central entrance has a 20th-century door set in a chamfered stone door frame, topped with an edge-moulded flat stone slab hood supported by carved brackets. The ground floor has two-light, 12-pane sash windows beneath original drip-moulds. The first floor is adorned with three-light, 3-pane, 19th-century casements set in moulded stone mullioned windows, all under a continuous drip-mould.
Local climate
The 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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