River Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. A C17 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
River Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-jade-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- River Cottage, Old Cleeve, TA24 6HE
- OS grid reference
- ST 032 412
- Coordinates
- 51.16206, -3.38451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
River Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was enlarged in the 20th century. It is constructed from whitewashed random rubble and concrete blocks, topped with a thatched roof and featuring brick stacks at the gable ends. The original plan consisted of two cells, but it has been expanded by one full-height bay on the right to include a garage. The cottage is one and a half storeys tall and has three bays. The 20th-century windows include gabled dormers at the eaves level and two-light casements, with a three-light leaded casement located to the left of the entrance. To the right of the entrance are garage doors, and a plank door is positioned right of center, sheltered by a thatched bonnet porch supported on brackets. The interior has not been viewed, but a photograph is available in the National Monuments Record.
Local climate
River 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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