Corner Cottage Dunkery View White Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Farmhouse, cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Corner Cottage Dunkery View White Post Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-quartz-reed
- 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
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Corner Cottage Dunkery View White Post Cottage, Selworthy, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 907 466
- Coordinates
- 51.20892, -3.56577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corner Cottage, Dunkery View, and White Post Cottage is a farmhouse that has been expanded into a row of cottages. It likely dates from the 16th to 17th century and was enlarged and altered in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of red sandstone random rubble, with the north end rendered and the south end roughcast. It has a double Roman tiled roof, with a pyramid shape at the right north-east end and brick stacks on the south gable end, the north side of the rear elevation, and above the cross gable.
The building has a T-plan layout, stretching from north-east to south-west, with a canted north-east end and a block added at the south-west end, featuring a cross wing on the south-east front. It is one and a half storeys tall, with the south-east front displaying a 1:2:1 bay arrangement. The gable end on the left has a 2-light casement, and there are two 2-light dormers. The cross wing features an oriel window on shaped brackets beneath a scallop tiled gable end and a pentice. There is a cat slide roof to the right over a porch, with an unlit first floor on the right and a blocked doorway on the left with an ogee headed lancet inserted. A buttress is present, along with a 3-light window to the left of the pentice porch and an ogee headed ribbed door. To the right, there is an arched lancet and a 3-light window in the cross gable end, with a Tudor arch head porch that has an inserted half-glazed door. The right side has squared headed recesses with sprockets and 3-light casements, similar to those on the left. The left return features two bays with ogee headed 3-light casements on the ground floor flanking diagonally boarded double doors, and a double Roman pentice hood porch. This building forms a picturesque group.
Local climate
Corner Cottage Dunkery View White Post 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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