West Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House.
West Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-mullion-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- West Cottage, the Leat, Bude-Stratton
- OS grid reference
- SS 229 063
- Coordinates
- 50.82927, -4.51518
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Cottage is a house with origins dating back to the 17th century, featuring alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of whitewashed and plastered cob on a stone plinth, topped with a slate roof that has gabled ends, likely raised and originally thatched. The house has a rendered front lateral stack. The layout consists of two rooms and a through passage, with the living space extended into a former barn on the right side and a former outbuilding at the rear right.
The building is two storeys high and has a three-window front. The front door, which is from the 20th century, is located under a 20th-century open gabled porch. On the ground floor, the left window is a hornless sash with four panes above eight panes, while the right window is a 20th-century casement with glazing bars. The first floor features 20th-century small pane windows. Inside, the left ground floor room, which serves as a hall, showcases cross beams of heavy scantling. A small 17th-century two-light timber mullioned window provides light to the stair.
Local climate
West 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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