Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Bridge Cottage

WRENN ID
heavy-vestry-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Bridge Cottage, Wootton Courtenay, Somerset, TA24 8RE
OS grid reference
SS 936 431
Coordinates
51.17734, -3.52254
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge Cottage is probably a late 17th- or early 18th-century cottage, altered in the mid-20th century. It likely originally comprised two single-cell dwellings with an attached farm building. The walls are rendered over rubble and cob, and the roof is thatched, half-hipped to the left and hipped to the right. There are two large lateral stacks at the rear, one of which has a renewed brick chimney. The cottage has a dormer window rising from the eaves in the centre, along with a three-light casement window below the eaves to the right. A loft door is positioned beyond this. On the ground floor, there are three windows to the left and one to the right of the entrance. A plank door is present, alongside a stable door below the loft opening in the end bay to the right. The left return features two 20th-century windows. The rear elevation includes a stack with a glazed opening in the chimney breast, as well as a similar opening at first floor level. The interior was not inspected.

Local climate

Bridge 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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