Sea View the Old Bake House is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1969. Farmhouse.

Sea View the Old Bake House

WRENN ID
peeling-portal-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 May 1969
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Sea View the Old Bake House, Selworthy, Somerset
OS grid reference
SS 896 480
Coordinates
51.22086, -3.58154
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sea View and The Old Bake House is a farmhouse that has been enlarged into two cottages. It likely dates from the 17th century and was expanded in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of red sandstone random rubble and features a thatched roof that is half hipped to the left, along with a scalloped clay tile cross wing. There are sprockets and a large stack that rises from the eaves at the center, which has a slate-roofed bread oven projection.

The layout consists of three cells and a cross passage, with an outshut at the rear, creating an L-plan. The building is one and a half storeys high and has three bays on the front. Most of the windows are 19th-century wooden casements, while the first floor on the left has two early 19th-century leaded iron casements. To the right of the stack is a two-light window, and the windows in the cross wing have cambered heads.

On the ground floor, there is an inserted plank door on the left, a stone relieving arch, and a stone lintel above a three-light window to the left of the bread oven. To the right, there is a two-light window and a three-light window in the cross wing. The building also features a clay tile lean-to single-storey porch with a side light and a plank door. The right return of the building is partly rendered and includes a single light window with a depressed ogee head in the wing, a three-light window below a cement lintel on the first floor, and a two-light window on the ground floor.

Local climate

Sea View the Old Bake House 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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