Willoughby Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1974. House.
Willoughby Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-window-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willoughby Cottage, Spicers Lane, Bude-Stratton, EX23 9DR
- OS grid reference
- SS 231 063
- Coordinates
- 50.82994, -4.51296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willoughby Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century. It has a whitewashed and rendered exterior with a thatched roof and stands two storeys tall. The front features one window and three steps leading up to a 20th-century front door. On the ground floor to the left is a small fixed 20th-century window, while to the right is a 19th-century two-light casement window with six panes per light. Above the door, there is a similar window on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected, but the cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Willoughby Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1997
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- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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