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

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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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