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

Laneshead Cottage

WRENN ID
keen-remnant-bracken
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
Address
Laneshead Cottage, Minehead Without, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 945 461
Coordinates
51.20524, -3.51086
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laneshead Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the 16th century, with later alterations and further changes made in the mid-20th century. The exterior features roughcast over rubble and some brick, topped with a double Roman tiled roof. It has a large lateral stone stack and a tall roughcast stack that rises from the eaves on the left side. The cottage has a two-cell plan and is one and a half storeys high. The chimney breast extends to the left where the wall breaks forward, and the wall above the entrance on the right is raised in brick. The windows are all 20th-century casements, with a two-light window beside the stack and two and three-light peaked door frames on the ground floor to the left, which is somewhat eroded and accessed by a flight of two steps. The dwelling is entered from the left side through a large lobby with quarry tiles. Inside, there is a framed lathe and plaster partition on the ground floor, along with chamfered beams featuring step and run-out stops. The upper storey has not been seen.

Local climate

Laneshead Cottage 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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