Thorn Cottage Winn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1959. A Late C18-early C19 Semi-detached cottages.

Thorn Cottage Winn Cottage

WRENN ID
tilted-plinth-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 April 1959
Type
Semi-detached cottages
Address
Thorn Cottage Winn Cottage, Winsford, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 906 348
Coordinates
51.1027, -3.56365
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Winn Cottage and Thorn Cottage are a pair of semi-detached cottages dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, with alterations made in the late 20th century. They are constructed with roughcast over rubble and feature a half-hipped thatched roof. There is a central stone stack and stone and roughcast stacks in the outer bays. The cottages have a three-cell plan and are almost identical, each with projecting circular stone turrets on the facade.

The buildings are two storeys high and have a long front with eight windows. The end bays project, and most of the windows are from the 20th century, set below wooden lintels. The 19th-century leaded stair lights are notable, and the entrance to Thorn Cottage features a left gabled porch with a half-glazed 19th-century door that has marginal glazing bars. Winn Cottage has a 20th-century door located to the right, beneath a triple ridge tile pentice porch, which is similar to the one over the outer bay window on the right.

Together, these cottages form a picturesque group and represent an unusual plan for semi-detached cottages in West Somerset. The interior has not been seen but is reported to lack dateable features.

Local climate

Thorn Cottage Winn Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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