Timber Dooley is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1988. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Timber Dooley

WRENN ID
lapsed-banister-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 March 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Timber Dooley, 6, Chapel Row, Branscombe, EX12 3AZ
OS grid reference
SY 188 888
Coordinates
50.69341, -3.15004
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Timber Dooley, located at No. 6 Chapel Row, is a cottage dating from the early to mid-17th century. It is constructed of plastered local stone rubble, with the stone rubble stack topped by 20th-century brick, and features a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and faces the lane to the southwest. The front doorway leads directly into the larger left room, which has a gable-end stack, while a small unheated lobby is to the right. This cottage is the end unit of a row in Chapel Row and is believed to be older than most of the others in the row.

The exterior presents a nearly symmetrical two-window front with 20th-century casements featuring glazing bars, arranged around a central doorway that has an old oak frame and a 20th-century door. The roof is gable-ended on the left, while on the right it continues with the roof of the adjoining No. 5 Chapel Row, although the ridge and eaves of No. 5 are slightly lower.

Inside, the main ground floor room features a chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeam, which is not a straight timber, and a stone rubble fireplace with a plain oak lintel. There is no exposed carpentry in the unheated room. The roof has two bays supported by a side-pegged jointed cruck filled with oak framing. The roofspace is not accessible, but it may contain evidence of the building's earlier origins. Timber Dooley is part of a notable group of mostly thatch-roofed buildings that make up the hamlet of Street.

Local climate

Timber Dooley receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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