Westbourne Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Westbourne Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-arch-bracken
- 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
- Westbourne Cottage, Selworthy, Somerset, TA24 8TP
- OS grid reference
- SS 918 467
- Coordinates
- 51.21001, -3.5492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westbourne Cottage is a cottage that likely dates back to the 17th century and was altered in the mid-19th century. It features roughcast over rubble with a thatched roof. The cottage has an external stack on the left gable end and a large lateral stack on the center left, which includes a slate-roofed bread oven projection. The layout consists of three cells and a cross passage.
It is one and a half storeys tall with a 1:2 bay arrangement. The cottage has arch-headed, two-light leaded dormers, and the bay to the right of the stack is built out in line with the stack. On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century leaded window to the left of a single-storey pentice hood that covers a double Roman tiled porch with a semicircular-headed door and diagonally boarded double doors. To the right of the stack, there are three-light ogee-headed leaded casements and a two-light casement.
The left side of the cottage has a double Roman tiled lean-to roofed addition that continues as an outshut at the rear, with two bays to the left of the external stack and a slate-roofed semicircular leaded bay to the right. The interior has not been seen, but a photograph is available in the National Monuments Record.
Local climate
Westbourne 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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