Paradise Cottage Wren Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Paradise Cottage Wren Cottage

WRENN ID
gilded-rampart-azure
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
Paradise Cottage Wren Cottage, Selworthy, Somerset, TA24 8SU
OS grid reference
SS 931 449
Coordinates
51.19382, -3.53031
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Paradise Cottage and Wren Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. It is possibly from the 17th century, although the gable ends have been rebuilt and altered over time. The exterior features roughcast random rubble and a thatched roof, which has a half-hipped design on the left side and a hipped design on the right, extending into a catslide over an addition. There is a lateral stack with a slate-roofed bread oven to the left of the entrance, and a stone stack rises on the rear elevation.

The layout is not clear without an internal inspection but is likely a three-cell plan with a cross passage extended to the right. The building has two storeys and presents a facade with one bay on the left, one bay in the middle, and three bays on the right. On the first floor, there is a two-light window on the left, a three-light leaded casement with a gabled top in the bay that aligns with the lateral stack, and three early 20th-century leaded iron casements on the right. The ground floor features a two-light 19th-century leaded casement on the left and a three-light window on the right under a wooden lintel. There is a slate-roofed pentice porch leading to a plank door, with a casement to the right and an inserted entrance beyond that has a 20th-century door. A lean-to addition is present in the end bay. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Paradise Cottage Wren 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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