The Old Ground is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Cottage.
The Old Ground
- WRENN ID
- narrow-joist-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Ground, Halse
- OS grid reference
- ST 143 270
- Coordinates
- 51.03614, -3.22238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Ground is a 17th-century cottage located in Halse, rendered over random rubble with a thatched roof. The roof slopes down to slate at the rear, and there is an external brick chimney stack on the right side and another to the left. The cottage has one and a half storeys with irregular window placements. It features 20th-century two and three-light casement windows with leaded panes, three three-light dormers, and several two-light dormers, except for one three-light window to the left of the central porch. There is a single-storey extension on the left, which has one bay and is independently thatched. At the rear, there is an outshut. Inside, the cottage is reputed to contain stud and panel screens on either side of the cross passage, one of which is partially cut. The interior also features chamfered beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
The Old Ground receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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