Knap Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Farmhouse, cottage.
Knap Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-jade-larch
- 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
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Knap Cottage, 1 and 2, Luccombe, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 911 448
- Coordinates
- 51.19209, -3.55851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knap Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century and was altered in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of red sandstone random rubble and features a double Roman tiled roof. There is an external stack on the right gable end and large lateral stacks on the rear elevation, with a bread oven projection at the rear end on the right. The plan likely consists of three cells and a cross passage, and the building is set into a hillside with the gable end facing the road.
It has one and a half storeys and is arranged in a 2:1 bay configuration. The 19th-century windows include two and three-light casements, and there is a dormer on the first floor that rises from below the eaves. The roof extends to a porch that is unlit on the upper storey. On the ground floor, there is one window to the left and two to the right of a window in a weatherboarded bay with a double Roman tiled roof. Another casement window is located to the right of the porch, and there is a plank door. The windows in the end bay on the right have astragal leading. The interior has not been seen, and the two lateral stacks at the rear may be a result of the restricted site.
Local climate
Knap 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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