Meadowside Packhorse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. House. 1 related planning application.
Meadowside Packhorse Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-oriel-plover
- 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
- House
- Address
- Meadowside Packhorse Cottage, Selworthy, Somerset, TA24 8HW
- OS grid reference
- SS 905 469
- Coordinates
- 51.21106, -3.56877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meadowsides Packhorse Cottage is a pair of semi-detached cottages, likely dating from the 17th century, and significantly altered in the late 19th century. The cottages are built of red sandstone rubble with a double Roman tile roof, hipped to the right side over a canted bay. A lateral stack is located to the right, and a stone stack is present at the left gable end. The building is arranged in an L-shape.
The facade is one and a half storeys, with a three-bay front to the left and a single bay to the right. Dormer casements with two lights are located on the left side, while a cambered two-light casement is on the right. At ground level, a slate-roofed bread oven projection is visible to the left, alongside cambered three-light windows. A central entrance is flanked by sidelights, and a similar configuration is present on the canted wall to the right, with a plank door.
On the right return, a gabled porch is supported by chamfered wooden columns, featuring a two-light window. A studded plank door is also present, and a 20th-century two-light window has replaced a blocked doorway. The left return includes a single-storey lean-to addition.
Local climate
Meadowside Packhorse 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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