Woodhayes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. A C18 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Woodhayes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-brass-finch
- 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
- Woodhayes Cottage, Whimple, EX5 2TQ
- OS grid reference
- SY 052 966
- Coordinates
- 50.7621, -3.34476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodhayes Cottage is a roadside cottage, likely dating from the 18th century and renovated around 1960. It is built of plastered cob, possibly with stone rubble footings. It has a stone rubble stack topped with 19th-century brick and a thatched roof. The cottage has a small, two-room plan, facing north, with the larger room located to the west and a gable-end stack. It is two storeys high. The front has a symmetrical appearance with two 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. A central front doorway has a contemporary, gabled porch and a 20th-century panelled door. The roof is hipped at both ends. Internally, the cottage largely reflects 20th-century modernisation; the crossbeam in the main room is boxed in, and the fireplace has been blocked. The roof structure was not inspected.
Local climate
Woodhayes 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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 — 23 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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