Windy Cott is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1988. Cottage.
Windy Cott
- WRENN ID
- open-clay-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Windy Cott, Branscombe
- OS grid reference
- SY 194 884
- Coordinates
- 50.69027, -3.14239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windy Cott is a cottage that likely dates from the early to mid-19th century and was renovated around 1980. It is constructed from exposed local stone rubble with larger Beerstone quoins, featuring a stone rubble stack and chimney shaft. The roof is thatched, while the service extension has a slate roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and faces south-south-west. The stack is located in the left (west) gable end, with a secondary single-storey service room on the right end.
The exterior displays an irregular three-window front with casements from around 1980 that include glazing bars, along with a fourth similar window in the extension. The front doorway, situated at the left end, features a 20th-century part-glazed door and a thatch-roofed porch from circa 1980 supported by plain timber posts. The main roof is hipped to the right and gable-ended to the left, while the extension has a gable-ended roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Windy Cott receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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