Ebenezer Cottage

Bursting with character and cottage appeal, this beautifully renovated late Victorian home lies within 15 minutes’ walk of Frome’s town centre. The three-storey house has been lovingly restored in recent years, taking a joyfully modern approach to the interior that makes use of hand-crafted materials, textiles and colour. A wonderful quality of natural light streams into every level, while outside, a long stretch of private garden unfolds, chock-full of shrubs, plants and mature trees and with a timber-framed summer house tucked away at the foot.

Setting the Scene 

Founded next to the river of the same name in the seventh century, Frome grew prosperous from its wool and cloth trade, becoming one of the largest settlements in Somerset. As it expanded, its streets sprawled away from the town centre in the river valley, climbing up from 65m above sea level to 135m at some points – all over a relatively short distance. As a result, many of its characterful cobbled streets are particularly steep and curve organically, with a fine display of some of the finest examples of 17thand 18th-century domestic architecture in the country. Unsurprisingly, Frome has the most listed buildings of anywhere in Somerset after Bath.

New Buildings, the road on which this house lies, is an attractive terrace of two and three-storey early 18th-century buildings defined by a pleasing uniformity. Most of the external façades feature two windows on the ground and first floor, and two light casements with wide mullions and hollow chamfer edges.