Middlecoombe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1977. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Middlecoombe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-garret-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Middlecoombe Cottage, Lympstone, EX8 5NB
- OS grid reference
- SY 006 846
- Coordinates
- 50.65346, -3.40731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Middlecoombe Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on stone footings and features a hipped thatched roof. There is a brick gabled-end extension with a corrugated-iron roof. The cottage has a two-room, cross-passage plan and includes an external left-hand stack, along with a later 19th-century internal rear lateral stack that heats the right-hand room. The building is two storeys high.
The front of the cottage has a symmetrical arrangement with three windows; the first floor features 18-pane horizontally sliding sash windows with wooden sill guide pegs, and there are similar windows on either side of a narrow central door that is partially panelled. At the rear, there is one first-floor casement window and two ground-floor casement windows, both from the 19th century. The exterior also includes low brick buttresses. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Middlecoombe Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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