Knowle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Knowle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-entrance-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Knowle Cottage, Whimple, EX5 2NZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 039 977
- Coordinates
- 50.77155, -3.36287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knowle Cottage is a small, 18th-century cottage situated at Knowle Cross, currently undergoing restoration as of 1988. The cottage is constructed with plastered cob walls, lacking footings, with a 19th-century brick stack and a thatched roof. It has a two-room plan, facing south and backing onto a lane. The larger western room features a gable-end stack, and a stair turret projects to the rear of the eastern room. The two-storey exterior features a two-window front with late 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. A 20th-century plank door is set within the doorway at the left end. The roof is gable-ended. Internally, there is plain carpentry detail where exposed; the roof was not inspected. Knowle Cottage is part of a notable group of small, thatched-roofed cottages at Knowle Cross and holds group value in this context.
Local climate
Knowle Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 5 transactions since 2001
- 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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