Timbers is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Timbers

WRENN ID
leaning-steel-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Timbers, 13 and 14, Old Cleeve, TA24 6HJ
OS grid reference
ST 039 417
Coordinates
51.16711, -3.37581
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Timbers is a farmhouse that was later converted into two cottages and is now a single dwelling, complete with an attached cider cellar and brewhouse. It dates from the 17th century and was restored in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed blue lias rubble, featuring brick relieving arches above the ground floor openings, and has a thatched roof with brick stacks at the gable ends and to the right of the cross passage.

The structure has an "L" plan and is situated on a site that slopes away to the left and at the rear, possibly indicating it was originally a longhouse. It has one and a half storeys and consists of five bays. The windows include late 19th and 20th century fenestration, with a three-light dormer casement on the first floor to the left, a 17th century two-light ovolo moulded mullion window above the entrance, and a mix of two-light and three-light casements below the eaves. On the ground floor, there is a three-light casement on the left, a small glazed opening without a relieving arch to the right of the entrance, and three-light casements flanking a second entrance. The main entrance is located in the second bay from the left and features a ribbed plank door and a thatched porch with a weatherboarded gable.

To the left, there is an unlit return with an attached single-storey pigsty that has a lean-to roof made of corrugated iron. The right return contains a long wing that houses the cider cellar and brewhouse, which has a hipped roof made of tiles and corrugated iron, along with a three-light chamfered mullion window. There is another 17th century two-light ovolo moulded mullion window on the rear elevation. The interior has not been viewed; however, the room to the left of the cross passage is said to be a later rebuild, possibly the byre end of the longhouse due to the sloping site. It is reported that one full-length jointed cruck and stop-chamfered beams with scroll stops are visible.

Local climate

Timbers 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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