Ovingdean is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Cottage.

Ovingdean

WRENN ID
iron-loft-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 January 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Ovingdean, 22, Wootton Street, Butleigh
OS grid reference
ST 500 349
Coordinates
51.11133, -2.7145
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ovingdean is a cottage located on Wootton Street, built in the late 18th to early 19th century, although its core may be older. The structure is made of coursed and squared rubble with a thatched roof, featuring one brick stack and one squat cylindrical rubble stack. It is designed in a picturesque cottage-ornee style, with the right return likely added later than the main part of the building.

The cottage has two storeys and a road frontage of three bays, with two-light casements on the ground floor, each having wooden lintels. The right return has a slightly different style, with a steeply sloping roof and overhanging eaves supported by "rustic" poles. It has one window on each floor, with a two-light casement in a dormer featuring thatch cut to form an "eyebrow" over a pointed head with Y-tracery. The ground floor has a three-light casement, where each light has a pointed-arch head and leaded lights. The door opening features a plank door. There is an unfortunate single-storey lean-to on the left side of the ground floor.

Local climate

Ovingdean receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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