Mrs Cox's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Cottage.

Mrs Cox's Cottage

WRENN ID
winter-gateway-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Mrs Cox's Cottage, Lower Street, Withycombe
OS grid reference
ST 016 414
Coordinates
51.16353, -3.40752
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mrs Cox's Cottage is a cottage, likely originally two dwellings, dating from the 17th century and extensively restored in the late 20th century. It is constructed of colour-washed random rubble, with a raking buttress on the left side. The facade slightly projects to the right and features a thatched roof with a rendered stack on the right gable end. The layout is not clear without an internal inspection, but it is probably a two-cell design set gable end to the road. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has two bays.

It includes early 19th century leaded iron dormer windows with two and three lights that rise from the eaves. On the ground floor, there is a segmental-headed 20th century two-light casement window on the left, a two-light casement window below a wooden lintel to the left of the entrance, and another two-light casement window on the right. The entrance features a multi-paned 20th century door and a thatched hooded porch.

On the right return, there is an early 19th century three-light leaded iron casement window on the first floor to the left and a small stair window to the right. The interior has not been seen but is reported to contain chamfered beams with enriched stops.

Local climate

Mrs Cox's Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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