Tan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1998. House.
Tan Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-postern-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tan Cottage, 49, Fore Street, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 544 556
- Coordinates
- 50.38271, -4.0483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tan Cottage is a small house that was later used as a tannery and is now a house again. It dates from the 17th century, with later remodelling. The building features painted rubble walls and a dry slate roof, arranged in a two-room plan over two storeys with a two-window range. It has 20th-century windows set in original or old openings. There is a large projection on the left, likely the original lateral stack. The left-hand window has a 17th-century re-used chamfered stone lintel. The left-hand return features an early 19th-century pointed-arched window with intersecting glazing bars. Inside, there is a brick-nogged partition to the left of the entrance passage and a five-bay 18th-century roof structure with pegged apexes and two tiers of collars.
Local climate
Tan Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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