Bakers Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Bakers Rock Cottage

WRENN ID
lone-postern-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Bakers Rock Cottage, Halse, TA4 3AF
OS grid reference
ST 140 280
Coordinates
51.04506, -3.22743
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bakers Rock Cottage is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been converted into three dwellings. It is built from red sandstone random rubble with a rendered facade that is grooved to resemble ashlar. The building features a thatched roof on the three left-hand bays and a steeply pitched slate roof on the two bays to the right. There is an external stack on the left, along with 20th-century brick stacks on the right-hand gable and to the left of the cross passage. The structure has a "U"-plan and was originally designed as a three-cell layout with a cross passage. It is two stories high and has five bays, with three-light casements that include glazing bars. The original entrance for Bakers is located in the second bay from the right, featuring a six-panel door and a thatched, gabled, 20th-century rustic wooden porch. The entrance to Rock Cottage is in the second bay from the left, marked by a 20th-century tiled gabled brick porch. The right return elevation has a tiny single light window that originally illuminated the stair bay. Inside, Rock Cottage is said to contain a 17th-century platter frieze.

Local climate

Bakers Rock Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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