Symes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Symes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- burning-passage-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Symes Cottage, Harepathstead Road, Broad Clyst, EX5 3DF
- OS grid reference
- SY 018 981
- Coordinates
- 50.77491, -3.393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Symes Cottage is an 18th-century cottage built with cob and a stone plinth, featuring a rendered exterior and a hipped thatched roof. It has a right-hand external stack. The front of the cottage is symmetrical with a two-window range, showcasing late 18th-century or early 19th-century two-light sash windows above, each with six panes per light. There are two sash windows at the ground floor, positioned one on either side of a 20th-century porch. Additionally, there is a single two-light casement window from the 19th century facing the roadside. A 20th-century extension is located at the left-hand end of the cottage. Inside, the kitchen includes a chamfered beam, a large fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel, and a back oven.
Local climate
Symes Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
- 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
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