Windmill Cottage with Adjacent Barn is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage.

Windmill Cottage with Adjacent Barn

WRENN ID
standing-terrace-myrtle
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
Windmill Cottage with Adjacent Barn, Elbury Lane, Broad Clyst
OS grid reference
SX 990 965
Coordinates
50.75938, -3.43215
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Windmill Cottage, dating from the 18th century, likely built in 1786, was formerly a miller's cottage. It is constructed of painted rubble stone with a stone plinth and features a hipped thatched roof. The cottage has two storeys and a symmetrical front with three windows, all of which are two-light with 20th-century timber casements. The upper window lintels are at wall-plate level. There is a wide central doorway with bead-moulded timber jambs, recessed under a simple wooden lintel. The end wall of the house has no window on the first floor. At the rear, there is an outshut under a catslide roof. Attached to the left of the cottage is a rendered sandstone wall that forms the rear of an open-fronted thatched barn. The barn wall is unbroken except for a door between the barn and the house. The cottage is part of a group with the old windmill. There are no notable internal features.

Local climate

Windmill Cottage with Adjacent Barn 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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