Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Lodge. 1 related planning application.

Keeper's Cottage

WRENN ID
other-baluster-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1986
Type
Lodge
Address
Keeper's Cottage, Selworthy, Somerset, TA24 8TG
OS grid reference
SS 916 459
Coordinates
51.20213, -3.55178
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keeper's Cottage is a lodge to Holnicote House, which is not included in the listing. It was built in the early 19th century and was probably enlarged in the late 19th century. The cottage is constructed from red sandstone random rubble and features a plain clay tiled roof with a half-hipped southeast gable and a pyramid roof on the northeast bay. A large stone stack is located at the center of the original range on the north front.

The building has a two-cell plan that was enlarged with a parallel range of two cells on the south side. It stands two storeys high with two bays. The east front has two-light casements, and the entrance is located in a porch with a corrugated iron roof at the center, featuring a plank door. To the left of the entrance is a full-height canted bay, and a diagonal butt joint on the left-hand bay indicates an earlier lean-to addition. The north front is only lit at the ground floor, and the windows of the original block have panelled reveals. The cottage is listed primarily for its group value with Stratford Cottage to the east.

Local climate

Keeper's 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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