East Lynch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Farmhouse.
East Lynch Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-hall-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- East Lynch Cottage, Selworthy, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 927 462
- Coordinates
- 51.20574, -3.53646
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Lynch Cottage is a farmhouse that has been enlarged into a cottage with a barn. It dates from the late medieval period and was ceiled in the late 16th to early 17th century. The front has been partially rebuilt and the cottage was enlarged to include the barn, possibly in the 18th century. The exterior is roughcast over rubble, with a thatched roof that is half-hipped to the right. There is a brick stack on the left gable end and a stone stack to the left of the cross passage.
The building likely started as an open hall house, which has been ceiled to create a three-cell layout with a cross passage. The end wall has been removed, allowing for the extension of the cottage to include the barn. It is one and a half storeys high, featuring 20th-century wooden casements. There are three 2-light dormers to the left of the entrance, with two 2-light windows on the ground floor to the left of a 20th-century door, one window to the right, and double doors leading to the barn beyond.
The interior has not been seen, but it is said to contain true crucks that are smoke blackened, with a hip true cruck on the left gable end. The right cruck has been removed when the wall was rebuilt. There are lateral beams with run-out stops to the left of the now-blocked cross passage at the rear.
Local climate
East Lynch Cottage 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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