Periwinkle Cottage Tea Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Cottage, tea rooms.

Periwinkle Cottage Tea Rooms

WRENN ID
riven-belfry-primrose
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, tea rooms
Address
Periwinkle Cottage Tea Rooms, Selworthy, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 919 468
Coordinates
51.21025, -3.54879
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Periwinkle Cottage Tea Rooms is a cottage that has been converted into tea rooms, dating from the mid-19th century and incorporating part of an earlier building. The exterior is roughcast over rubble, featuring a thatched roof that is hipped to the left, with a catslide over an addition. The outshot to the left of the porch has a scalloped clay tile roof, while the outshot to the right retains a thatched roof. An external stack on the right gable end is partially concealed by the outshot.

The building has a plan consisting of two cells and a cross passage, with outshots flanking a full-height porch. It is one and a half storeys tall and has small arched leaded windows on either side of the full-height gabled porch, which features a single light. On the ground floor to the left, there is a single light with a Tudor arch head above diagonally boarded double doors in the outshot. To the left of the porch, there is a 2-light ogee-headed leaded casement supported on square wooden columns. The right outshot is adjacent and has 4-light reset trefoil-headed lights with decorative spandrels and ferramentae. On the right return, there is an oriel window in the gable end, supported on shaped brackets to the left of the stack, with a single light to the right and an outshot below.

Local climate

Periwinkle Cottage Tea Rooms 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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