Love Cottage and Witch Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1989. A C16 House. 2 related planning applications.
Love Cottage and Witch Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Love Cottage and Witch Farm Cottage, Buckerell, EX14 3ER
- OS grid reference
- ST 121 006
- Coordinates
- 50.79877, -3.24746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two adjoining houses, initially a single dwelling, likely dating from the late 16th or early 17th century. The walls are rendered cob on stone footings, topped by a corrugated asbestos roof, which was formerly thatched. Gables are present at each end, with a stack on the left side and an axial stack featuring rendered shafts.
The original layout comprised three rooms and a cross passage, with the lower end to the left, designated as Love Cottage. A hall stack faced onto the passage, and there was an unheated inner room. The passage has since been converted into a service room, and new entrances have been added.
The front facade is asymmetrical, presenting a three-window to four-window arrangement. Love Cottage features a porch with an artificial thatched roof to the left of centre, along with three first floor and two ground floor windows—small-paned, two-light casements from the 19th century. Witch Farm Cottage has a 20th-century gabled porch to its left of centre, and four first floor and two ground floor windows of a similar two-light, small-paned, 19th-century design.
The hall within Witch Farm Cottage exhibits an open fireplace with chamfered Beerstone jambs and a chamfered lintel. A staircase rises adjacent to the stack, alongside intersecting moulded ceiling beams. The right-hand or inner room features a chamfered crossbeam with scroll-stopped ends. Love Cottage has an open fireplace in its lower end room, complete with a chamfered timber lintel, a bread oven, and a scroll-stopped ceiling beam.
The roof of Witch Farm Cottage is constructed using a jointed cruck system, likely extending across what was formerly Pleasant View.
This is a traditional house retaining original interior features.
Local climate
Love Cottage and Witch Farm Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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