Dwarfs Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Cottage.

Dwarfs Cottage

WRENN ID
fossil-rubble-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 May 1969
Type
Cottage
Address
Dwarfs Cottage, Selworthy, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 931 454
Coordinates
51.19795, -3.53056
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dwarfs Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 16th to 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century and an extension added in the 20th century. The building is rendered over rubble and cob, featuring double Roman tile roofs and a lateral stack to the left of the entrance, with the wall extended to the left. The layout consists of a two-cell plan with a cross passage, which was extended in the 20th century to create a three-cell structure.

The cottage is one and a half storeys tall, with a 20th-century dormer in the roof space to the left of the stack. There is a full-height gabled porch on the right, and a two-light casement window in the gable end. The outer bays have two-light casements, with the left one being an early 19th-century leaded iron window. The ground floor features a glazed opening to the left, with the porch set at the angle of the stack extension. There is also a three-light casement window on the right, a square-headed opening to the porch, and an octagonal mullioned unglazed window to the right. The doorway has a chamfered pointed arch and a ribbed door.

To the left, there is a single-storey 20th-century addition with one window. Inside, a plank and muntin screen to the cross passage survives behind cupboards, along with chamfered beams that have step and mounted stops. There is a curved projection in the corner of the right-hand room, which may be a stair turret with a pier beside it. The cottage was formerly known as Clements.

Local climate

Dwarfs Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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