Stratford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Cottage.
Stratford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-ledge-rain
- 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
- Stratford Cottage, Selworthy, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 917 458
- Coordinates
- 51.202, -3.55126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stratford Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that underwent extensive alterations in the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble with a rendered upper storey on the west front, featuring exposed quoins. The cottage has a half hipped thatched roof and a large lateral stack on the north front topped with a moulded 19th-century brick cap.
The building has a two-cell plan with a porch addition on the north front and a canted stair bay on the south front, along with a lean-to addition on the east side. It stands two storeys tall with a south front that has four bays and late 19th-century windows. The left bay of the first floor is unlit, and the roof sweeps down to a plank door below. To the left of the canted stair bay is a 2-light casement window, which has an ogee-headed stair light above it. The ground floor features two 3-light casements with wooden lintels, and there is a 2-light casement in the tiled lean-to addition on the right.
The left return, or west front, jetties out over a chamfered, plastered bressumer, with a 2-light leaded casement above and a 4-light depressed 4-centred arch head small casement below. There is another entry on the north front through the porch addition.
Local climate
Stratford Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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