Weeks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 2004. House.
Weeks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-keep-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 2004
- Type
- House
- Address
- Weeks Cottage, Week Lane, Exton, Somerset, TA22 9JP
- OS grid reference
- SS 914 333
- Coordinates
- 51.08895, -3.55097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Weeks Cottage is a house that likely dates back to the 17th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed from stone rubble and features a double Roman clay tile roof with gabled ends. The gable end stacks are made of stone rubble and have later brick shafts, while there is a projecting lateral stack at the front that includes set-offs and an integral oven.
The layout of the cottage follows a three-room plan. The end rooms are heated by gable end stacks, and the center room has a lateral stack at the front, which also contains a large integral oven. The front doorway, located to the right of the lateral stack, leads directly into the right-hand room. There are projections at the rear of the center and left rooms; the projection behind the left room houses a staircase, while the larger projection behind the center room is used as a store. Additionally, there is a later outshut at the right (east) end.
The exterior of the cottage is two stories high and features an asymmetrical south front with four small window openings that have timber lintels, although the windows were boarded over at the time of inspection. The central projecting lateral stack has weathered set-offs, and to the right of it is a large semi-circular projecting oven with a slate lean-to roof. A plank door is situated to the right of the oven, which is sheltered by an open porch with a tiled lean-to canopy. The rear (north) wall projects on the right, and at the east end, there is a large single-storey outshut with a tiled lean-to roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Weeks Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 transaction since 2002
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