Lower Cottshayne is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Cottshayne
- WRENN ID
- rough-frieze-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lower Cottshayne, Southleigh Road, Colyton, EX24 6RX
- OS grid reference
- SY 225 940
- Coordinates
- 50.74091, -3.09966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Cottshayne is a cottage dating from around the 16th century. It is constructed of white-washed stone rubble and features a thatched half-hipped roof, with the eaves on the left-hand end being lower. The building has two storeys and a two-window range. On the first floor, there are two small casements with glazing bars. The ground floor includes a central glazed door and a modern metal frame window to the right. A thatched hood covers the doorway at the west end, and there is a brick ridge chimney stack located near the west end.
Inside, the cottage has a plank and muntin screen with a chamfered round arched doorway, a massive fireplace bressummer, a stopped chamfer ceiling beam, and jointed cruck trusses.
Local climate
Lower Cottshayne 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings