Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1987. A 18th century Cottage.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-tallow-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- Brook Cottage, Hayes Lane, East Budleigh
- OS grid reference
- SY 065 848
- Coordinates
- 50.65606, -3.32379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage, originally two separate cottages, likely built in the 18th century and refurbished in the late 19th century. The structure features plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with some exposed cob at the rear and part of the rear faced with 19th-century brick. It has stone rubble or brick stacks topped with 19th-century brick and Rolle Estate chimney pots, and a thatched roof.
Originally, the cottage had a two-room plan facing east with a stack at the left end, while the right end housed a one-room plan cottage with a stack in the party wall. The right cottage is slightly misaligned and may have been added later. The two cottages have been combined into a single residence.
The building is two storeys high and has an irregular four-window front featuring various 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The front doorway, located at the right end of the former larger cottage, contains a plank door, while the former doorway to the smaller cottage is blocked off to the right. The roof is gable-ended.
Brook Cottage is part of a charming group of thatched buildings and is positioned forward from Pear Tree Cottage, which is adjacent to the left. The interior was not available for inspection at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Brook 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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