Venniford Cottages 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.
Venniford Cottages
- WRENN ID
- deep-roof-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
- Cottage
- Address
- Venniford Cottages, 1 and 2, Minehead Without, Somerset, TA24 8ST
- OS grid reference
- SS 930 458
- Coordinates
- 51.20153, -3.53227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Venniford Cottages are a pair of semi-detached estate cottages built in the mid-19th century. They are constructed from red sandstone random rubble and feature a double Roman tile roof with overhanging eaves and stone stacks positioned away from the gable ends. The cottages are arranged in a U-plan and are one and a half storeys high.
The front facade includes two three-light dormers at the center, while all ground floor windows have ogee heads and astragal leading. The roof over the end bays slopes down in a catslide style above a two-light window. Flanking the central Tudor arch head entrances are four-light windows, and the entrances themselves have plank doors.
On the left side, there is a rendered gable end with plain tiled pentices over two three-light casements supported by paired brackets. The left bay jetties out above a 20th-century two-light window. The right side is similar but features a tile-hung gable end and retains all original windows.
Local climate
Venniford Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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