Wind and Weather Hut is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1992. A Victorian Memorial.
Wind and Weather Hut
- WRENN ID
- open-groin-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1992
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Wind and Weather Hut, Selworthy, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 914 476
- Coordinates
- 51.21779, -3.5553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wind and Weather Hut is a memorial built in 1878 by John Barton Arundel Acland of Holnicote, New Zealand, who was the youngest son of Thomas Dyke Acland (1787-1871). Constructed from ashlar, the hut has a rectangular plan and features a hipped stone roof. It is supported by chamfered piers that frame recesses with seats beneath inscriptions. These inscriptions include poems celebrating the beauty of the countryside by Heber and Keble, as well as a tribute to Thomas Dyke Acland, who played a significant role in the Picturesque movement through his improvements to the Selworthy estate, particularly the cottages around Selworthy Green.
Local climate
Wind and Weather Hut sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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