Darley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1952. A Vernacular House. 4 related planning applications.
Darley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-gable-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Vernacular
- Address
- Darley Cottage, Water Lane, TQ2 7HW
- OS grid reference
- SX 894 657
- Coordinates
- 50.4807, -3.55971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Darley Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century or possibly earlier. It is constructed of plastered cob with a thatched roof, half-hipped at the ends. The house includes an axial stack with a rendered shaft on the external rear right corner, and an external rear right corner stack. The plan is of a 2-room-and-cross-passage design.
The exterior presents as a single-storey building with an attic, featuring a 2-window range. A fine chamfered shouldered doorframe is visible in the passage, with a plank and cover strip front door. The thatch is carried down as a catslide over a possible oven projection to the left. There are two ground-floor 3-light casements, fitted with 20th-century diamond-leaded panes. An eyebrowed thatch covers a 2-light dormer in the centre, which is similarly glazed.
Inside, exposed beams are visible in the cross passage. The remainder of the house was not inspected. The roof is reportedly inaccessible. Darley Cottage is considered one of the most externally complete vernacular houses in Torquay.
Local climate
Darley Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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