Badger's Rake Cottiford is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Badger's Rake Cottiford
- WRENN ID
- dusted-hall-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Badger's Rake Cottiford, 2, Bicknoller, TA4 4LR
- OS grid reference
- ST 098 394
- Coordinates
- 51.14764, -3.28953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Badger's Rake Cottiford is a farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates from the 17th century and was enlarged in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building is rendered over cob, random rubble, and brick, with thatched roofs that are half-hipped to the left. It features a large wall plate and a rendered external stack to the right, with colourwashed brick above the entrance and brick on the rear wing.
The layout is likely a lobby entrance that has been expanded to a "T"-plan by the addition of a wing at the rear, which is flanked by outshuts. This wing has been extended again in brick beyond the chimney. The farmhouse is one and a half storeys high, with two dormers on the first floor. The dormer to the right has a two-light leaded casement window with quadrant stays. Other windows include a small two-light window to the left, a three-light window to the left of the entrance, and three cruciform windows to the right, one of which has been significantly altered.
There is a late 20th-century glazed porch on a random rubble plinth, featuring a glazed door from the same period. The entrance to Badger's Rake is located in the rear outshut on the right. The interior has only been partially viewed, but one pair of jointed trucks is visible in No 2 Cottiford. The building was formerly known as Trenance Farmhouse.
Local climate
Badger's Rake Cottiford receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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