Lower House is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Lower House

WRENN ID
empty-slate-birch
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
Lower House, Selworthy, Somerset, TA24 8HF
OS grid reference
SS 896 480
Coordinates
51.22085, -3.58207
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower House is a cottage with attached farm buildings, now functioning as a single dwelling. It dates from the 16th to 17th century and was altered in the late 19th century. The exterior is roughcast over rubble, featuring a thatched roof with a hipped west end and a double Roman tiled roof on the independently roofed east wing, which is half hipped. There is an external stack on the south-east gable end and a stone stack on the north gable end.

The cottage is L-shaped in plan, with a two-cell south front and an entrance on the east front, which includes an agricultural addition to the east wing. It is one and a half storeys tall, with mostly 20th-century casements. The east front has an external stack on the left gable end, two dormers on the right, and an agricultural building abutting the ground floor. There is an inserted window to the right of the stack, and a segmental headed leaded 2-light casement to the right of diagonally boarded double doors. The re-entrant angle of the wing is lit only at ground floor level, featuring a 2-light leaded casement on the left and three 19th-century leaded iron casements. The gable end has garage doors with a 2-light 20th-century window above. The south front wall has the left-hand bay set back below the hip of the roof, with two dormers, a thatched roof canted bay with a 3-light casement, and half-glazed double doors to the left. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Lower House 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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