Higher Golsoncott is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Higher Golsoncott
- WRENN ID
- small-shingle-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Golsoncott, Old Cleeve, Somerset, TA24 6QZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 028 390
- Coordinates
- 51.14262, -3.39069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 17th-century farmhouse, significantly altered in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of rubble, rendered and with a slate roof, featuring overhanging eaves with exposed rafters. A stone stack projects from the left gable end, and a large rendered stack is on the facade to the right of the entrance. The original layout comprised three main rooms and a cross passage, with a single-bay addition to the left, a stair turret to the rear, and an outshut at the rear right.
The two-storey, three-bay facade has 19th-century windows, mostly 2, 3, and 4-light casements. The end bay to the left is unlit. A projecting slate roofed porch extends to the right, with an arched opening and double half-glazed doors featuring 19th-century figured glass. A ground-floor window on the right return gable end, presumably replacing a stack, is fronted by a single-storey wooden verandah.
Inside, few original features remain, although there are chamfered spine beams with step and runout stops to the left of the cross passage, a chamfered lintel above the lateral stack, a stud and plaster partition on the first floor, and a truncated jointed cruck in another first-floor partition. The outbuilding at the rear is believed to have been the original farmhouse.
Local climate
Higher Golsoncott sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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