Lorna Doone National Trust Shop and Information Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Shop, cottage.

Lorna Doone National Trust Shop and Information Centre

WRENN ID
haunted-chamber-linden
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
Shop, cottage
Address
Lorna Doone National Trust Shop and Information Centre, Selworthy, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 919 468
Coordinates
51.21061, -3.54849
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lorna Doone National Trust Shop and Information Centre is a semi-detached cottage, originally built in the 17th century and enlarged in the mid-19th century. It is now used as a cottage and shop. The building features roughcast over rubble and possibly cob, with thatched roofs hipped to the left and a large lateral stack to the right of the original entrance. The plan consists of two cells, with an additional two bays and a porch to the east. It has one and a half storeys and single-storey additions, with five bays in the original dwelling. The windows include semicircular headed two-light casements flanking the lateral stack, and a thatched pentice porch with a cambered head plank door. There is also a window in the angle of the chimney breast, and three and two-light casements to the right. The left side features a half-hipped single-storey cross wing addition with a thatched central bay window, three-light ogee headed lights with an ogee headed doorway, a ribbed plank door, and a leaded light beyond.

Local climate

Lorna Doone National Trust Shop and Information Centre 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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