Windsor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.
Windsor Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-crypt-falcon
- 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
- Windsor Cottage, Gittisham, EX14 3AS
- OS grid reference
- SY 135 985
- Coordinates
- 50.77971, -3.22783
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windsor Cottage is a late 17th-century house, significantly altered in the late 20th century. The house is whitewashed and rendered, with a thatched roof. The roof is hipped at one end and gabled at the other. It has a rear lateral stack and a stack at the left end of the main range, and an end stack to the wing. The original layout was L-shaped, with the wing likely serving as the kitchen. The entrance is situated in the angle between these two parts of the house.
From the front, there is one window on the main elevation, and two windows to the inner return of the wing. A thatched porch from the 20th century sits in the angle. The windows are 20th-century 3-light casements with square leaded panes. Ground floor windows incorporate transoms, while the first-floor windows do not. The gable end of the wing has three 20th-century windows. The interior has been modernized, although some original 17th-century carpentry has been reused. The property sits on the edge of an exceptional village characterized by traditional thatched houses.
Local climate
Windsor 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 2021
- 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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