The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
sleeping-keep-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 April 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, West Hill, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 6BU
OS grid reference
SY 058 819
Coordinates
50.62997, -3.33252
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage ornée located in Budleigh Salterton. It features roughcast walls and a thatched half-hipped roof. The building is two stories high and consists of three bays. It has three-light casements with gothick panes. A central rustic timber porch with a thatched roof adds to its charm, and there are rendered chimney stacks at both ends.

Local climate

The 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 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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