Lypefoot is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Lypefoot
- WRENN ID
- graven-slate-twilight
- 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
- Lypefoot, Cutcombe, Somerset, TA24 7BJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 950 377
- Coordinates
- 51.12948, -3.5007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century cottage that was enlarged around 1970. It is built with roughcast over rubble walls, accentuated by diagonal buttresses, and has a hipped thatched roof with a central curved sweep over a bay window. A central octagonal stone chimney stack rises from the roof. The cottage is in an L-shape: the original section faces south, and it has been extended with a northwest wing and a curved entrance porch set into the angle.
The south front has two storeys and three bays. A prominent full-height curved bay window is centrally located, featuring pairs of arrowslit windows on both floors. Other windows are 2-light wooden casements; the ground-floor openings retain hoodmoulds. The original entrance is on the right return, with a thatched pentice porch supported by roughcast walls, leading to a plank door. There are two window openings in an outshut on the same return, with a ground-floor window also retaining a hoodmould. A semicircular, part-glazed, thatched porch is now the main entrance, incorporated within a 20th-century addition at the angle of the L-shape. The cottage is one of a group of cottages originally belonging to the Chargot estate.
Local climate
Lypefoot sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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