Lower Moor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Lower Moor Cottage

WRENN ID
errant-wall-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1952
Type
Cottage
Address
Lower Moor Cottage, Moor Road, Minehead, TA24 5RX
OS grid reference
SS 964 467
Coordinates
51.21088, -3.48383
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Moor Cottage, formerly known as Lower Moor Farm Cottage, is a cottage dating from the 16th or 17th century. It is built of cob and rubblestone with a thatched roof and features two front lateral stacks. The stack on the inside left is offset above the eaves and has a brick shaft, while the stack on the inside right is offset both below and above the eaves and has a rendered cylindrical shaft. There are also brick stacks on the left gable end and at the rear of the building.

The cottage has a convex-curved three-unit plan, with a lateral stack serving the central hall and lean-to extensions on the left and rear. It stands two storeys high and has a two-window range. The windows are 19th-century three-light casement windows, and there is a 20th-century door to the left of the left-hand stack. A small horizontal single light window is located to the right of the left lateral stack. The uphill central range is single-storey and set back, featuring a four-light window.

To the far right, there is a low two-storey range from the 16th century, which has timber lintels over a blocked door and windows. The top right window was originally a two-light window with a 16th-century oak mullion. The right return has a 19th-century painted rubblestone panel with a door, while the left return is made of exposed rubblestone and includes a 19th-century three-light window on the first floor, positioned above the slate-roofed lean-to. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Lower Moor Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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