Golsoncott Cottage and Detached Privy, One Metre South is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Golsoncott Cottage and Detached Privy, One Metre South

WRENN ID
proud-niche-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Golsoncott Cottage and Detached Privy, One Metre South, Old Cleeve, Somerset
OS grid reference
ST 026 390
Coordinates
51.14258, -3.39243
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Golsoncott Cottage and its detached privy, located one metre south, date from the 17th to 18th century and were restored in the 20th century. The cottage is built of colour-washed random rubble and has a half-hipped thatched roof. It features a large external lateral stack to the right of the entrance, which includes a slate-roofed bread oven projection. A moulded plinth wraps around the right bay. The building may have originally been a single cell but is now two cells. It has one and a half storeys, with gable ends lit only on the upper floor. The upper floor windows are all 20th-century two-light wooden casements, with one located to the right of the external stack. The left side has a slate-roofed, gabled, colour-washed brick porch with a ribbed plank inner door. The rear elevation facing the road is unlit and features a lean-to addition with a slate roof and a plank door in the re-entrant angle. The detached privy is a single-storey structure with one bay, made of random rubble and topped with a slate roof. It has barge boarding on the outside, a 20th-century window, and a plank door. This cottage is a typical thatched Somerset home, notable for still having its 19th-century external privy.

Local climate

Golsoncott Cottage and Detached Privy, One Metre South sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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