Somerville is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. Cottage.
Somerville
- WRENN ID
- third-spire-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Somerville, Whitford Road, Musbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 270 948
- Coordinates
- 50.74862, -3.03485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Somerville is a cottage dating from the 18th to early 19th century, constructed from stone rubble and positioned at right angles to the road. It features a roughcast front and a thatched roof with gabled ends and eyebrow eaves. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows across the front, along with a one-bay extension at the southwest end. The windows are modern three-light casements with glazing bars. There is also a modern thatched roof porch and brick chimney stacks at the ridge and ends.
Local climate
Somerville receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 2012
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