Couple Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Cottage.
Couple Cross
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-tower-wagtail
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Couple Cross, Cutcombe, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 950 386
- Coordinates
- 51.1379, -3.50134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Couple Cross is a cottage dating from the early 19th century. It features roughcast over rubble, diagonal buttresses, and overhanging eaves with a soffit board. The roof is covered with bitumen and slate, curving out over a central bay, which also has a central square roughcast stack. The building has a double pile plan with a central curved bay. It stands two storeys high and has three bays, with the central bay extending full height. Each floor of the central bay has paired arrowslit windows without hoodmoulds, while the other windows are 2-light leaded metal casements. There is a square-headed entrance in the centre with a plank door. Couple Cross is part of a group of cottages associated with the Chargot estate.
Local climate
Couple Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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