The Cottage and Umbrella Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1951. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Cottage and Umbrella Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-mortar-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1951
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage and Umbrella Cottage, Fore Street Hill, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 6PD
- OS grid reference
- SY 065 820
- Coordinates
- 50.63029, -3.32195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage and Umbrella Cottage date from circa 1805, with earlier origins as a row of cottages. The building was reconfigured around 1805 with the addition of a south-east wing. The exterior is roughcast, with a thatched hipped roof. It is two storeys high. The original five-window front features eyebrow eaves over the first-floor windows, and three-light casement windows with gothic glazing. A former porch, now removed, had a lead roof shaped like an umbrella, giving the building one of its names. The 1805 south-east wing creates an L-shaped plan. The building stands elevated above the road, incorporating a blind retaining wall with two pointed arch recesses and an iron balustrade above. The south side of the wing is supported by rustic wooden posts and features a hipped thatched roof. A tented verandah and an elaborate gothic French window are on the west side. On the east side, facing the road, is a semi-circular thatched porch supported by reeded columns.
Local climate
The Cottage and Umbrella Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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