Cottage (National Trust Nos 95 and 96) is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Farmhouse.
Cottage (National Trust Nos 95 and 96)
- WRENN ID
- pitched-rubblework-yarrow
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cottage (National Trust Nos 95 and 96), Selworthy, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 934 445
- Coordinates
- 51.18988, -3.5259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings, known as Cottage (National Trust Estate Nos 95 and 96). It dates from the 17th century but has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The structure is made of random rubble local stone, with some parts rendered, and features a thatched roof that is hipped to the left. There is a brick stack at the right gable end, a lateral stack with a bread oven projection to the left of the entrance, and a circular stack rising at the rear towards the center.
The layout suggests it was originally a three-cell farmhouse with a cross passage, which has been extended by one bay to the left to create two two-cell cottages, with an outshot at the rear. The building is one and a half storeys high and has a layout of one bay, three bays, one bay, and one bay. The first floor features all two-light dormers that rise below the eaves, except for the second bay on the right, which has an inserted ogee-headed light above the entrance to the right-hand cottage. On the ground floor, there is a recessed bay on the left, two two-light casements to the left of the stack, an entrance to the right, and two-light casements flanking the second entrance. The interior has not been seen. This building was formerly known as Knowle Farmhouse.
Local climate
Cottage (National Trust Nos 95 and 96) 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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