West Lynch House, Dwarf Wall and Railings Returned to House As Curved Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
West Lynch House, Dwarf Wall and Railings Returned to House As Curved Walls
- WRENN ID
- drifting-pillar-crow
- 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
- West Lynch House, Dwarf Wall and Railings Returned to House As Curved Walls, Selworthy, Somerset, TA24 8HJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 901 476
- Coordinates
- 51.21787, -3.57452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Lynch House is a farmhouse, now a dwelling, dating from the late 16th to early 17th century. It was refenestrated in the early 19th century and has undergone significant internal alterations since then. The building features roughcast over rubble, possibly cob, with a thatched roof. There is an external stack on the left gable end, with a renewed brick chimney, and a lateral stack between the third and fourth bays on the left, along with a brick stack on the right gable end.
The house is L-shaped and has two storeys with a three-bay section and a two-bay section. The left side has four windows with eyebrows, all of which are 16-pane sash windows. There is a 20-pane sash window on the ground floor flanking the entrance, which features a panelled door and a flat-roofed decorative trelliswork wooden porch. To the right of the lateral stack, there are inserted 20th-century French windows, a 20th-century door, and a three-light casement window leading to the service wing beyond.
The service end is separated from the house by a full-height roughcast wall with cement saddleback coping that sweeps down to a dwarf wall in front of the house. A similar wall with slate coping is at the end bay on the right. The dwarf wall is made of dressed red sandstone with steeply chamfered coping and is set with cast iron railings featuring flatted heads, stepped up in sections in front of the house, along with a gate of similar design.
The interior, which has been extensively altered, retains some steeply chamfered beams and features an early 19th-century semi-circular headed stair window with tinted glass. This house was the residence of the mill owner for the now-demolished corn mill at West Lynch, and it is likely that the farmhouse was refenestrated when the mill was rebuilt around 1820.
Local climate
West Lynch House, Dwarf Wall and Railings Returned to House As Curved Walls 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 — 3 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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