Halse Water Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. House. 2 related planning applications.
Halse Water Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-rood-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ST 144 282
- Coordinates
- 51.04688, -3.22227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Halse Water Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble, with a facade that is painted rubble and render, topped by a thatched roof and featuring brick stacks. The building has one and a half storeys and consists of four bays. The 20th-century windows are 2- and 3-light casements with segmental heads, located in the gabled bay. The left half of the facade protrudes forward, featuring a single-storey outer bay and a gabled second bay on the left. The second bay on the right has a four-centred arch doorway with a plank and stud door, while the outer bay has a gabled dormer and a casement window to the left below. There is an extension on the right return elevation.
Inside, the cottage is said to have a water pebble-floored cross passage, with a hall to the right that has a hollow chamfered beam and a four-compartment ceiling with small plaster details and an incomplete plaster frieze. A partition cuts through the ceiling, with a newel stair located behind it, to the left of a modern grate.
Local climate
Halse Water 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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