Brook Cottage and Oldstream Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.

Brook Cottage and Oldstream Cottage

WRENN ID
over-rubble-sage
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
Brook Cottage and Oldstream Cottage, 24 and 26 Park Street, Dunster, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 6SR
OS grid reference
SS 989 432
Coordinates
51.17966, -3.4469
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Brook Cottage and Oldstream Cottage are likely 17th century buildings located at 24 and 26 Park Street in Dunster. They feature colourwashed rough-cast exteriors with thatched and tiled roofs, and stone chimney stacks at each end. Both cottages are two storeys high.

Oldstream Cottage (No 24) has two eyebrow dormer windows, one with three lights and the other with two lights, both made of metal casements with leaded lights. The ground floor has three two-light metal casements with leaded lights and a deep recessed doorway with a plain boarded door. Brook Cottage (No 26) has one dormer window and one three-light casement on the ground floor, along with a modern thatched door hood.

These cottages are part of a charming group of thatched buildings that lead down to the River Avill and Gallox Bridge.

Local climate

Brook Cottage and Oldstream 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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