Wychanger Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Wychanger Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-spandrel-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wychanger Cottage, Luccombe, Somerset, TA24 8TA
- OS grid reference
- SS 911 444
- Coordinates
- 51.18879, -3.55882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wychanger Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was enlarged in the 19th century. It has a roughcast exterior over rubble and features a thatched roof that is half hipped to the left. There is a brick stack at the right gable end and a large lateral stack to the left of the entrance, which has an adjoining full height projection. The plan likely consists of two cells and a cross passage, with a full height bay beside the stack and a single bay addition on the left. The cottage is two storeys high, with a 19th-century two-light ogee headed leaded casement window to the left of the stack on the first floor, and a two-light casement window extended with a glazed gabled top. The end bay on the left is unlit. On the ground floor, there are two 20th-century two-light casements to the left and one to the right of a plank door that is next to the stack, which has a tiny peaked lancet that is probably for ventilation for a curing chamber. There are three steps leading up to the door, and there is a single storey, one bay 20th-century lean-to addition on the right return. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Wychanger Cottage 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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