Penny's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Penny's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-pediment-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Penny's Cottage, Penny's Hill, TQ1 4HE
- OS grid reference
- SX 909 654
- Coordinates
- 50.4784, -3.53824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penny’s Cottage is likely an 18th century or earlier house, originally a single building and later divided into cottages. It is constructed of a plastered mass wall, probably cob, and has a thatched roof, hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. The building has a long, rectangular single-depth plan with a later addition to the left. The front of the house is long, with six windows, and the thatched eaves project outwards above the first-floor windows. There are two entrances on the front; the right-hand entrance has a 20th century thatched porch supported by posts. The windows are small-pane timber casements; the upper floor has six windows, while the ground floor has four, with 2, 3, and 4 lights per window. A pair of bee boles are located on the front to the left. The interior has not been inspected, but may contain features of architectural interest.
Local climate
Penny's 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 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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