Woodford Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1973. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Woodford Cottages
- WRENN ID
- waning-vestry-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Woodford Cottages, 1-5, Nettlecombe, TA4 4HR
- OS grid reference
- ST 064 384
- Coordinates
- 51.13772, -3.33891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of four cottages with a larger house at its end, dated 1852. They were built of red sandstone rubble with slate roofs and brick stacks. The cottages form an "L" shape, backing onto the road, with the larger house, number 5, set at a right angle and accessed by a drive leading to Nettlecombe Court. Number 5 is two storeys high with three bays. It features a full-height canted bay on the right, a gabled roof, two-light casement windows with multiple panes, a single-light window above the gabled porch, and a porch with decorative bargeboards and shaped wooden brackets carved on wooden piers. The porch is slate-roofed. A shield set in the gable end is inscribed with "WCT 1852" (referring to Trevelyan). The right return of number 5 has three square gabled oriels facing the road. These cottages were built as estate cottages, part of the Nettlecombe Estate. The village itself had been relocated at the end of the 18th century from its original setting beside the Church of St Mary.
Local climate
Woodford Cottages receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1995
- 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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