Clay's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. Cottage.
Clay's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-merlon-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Clay's Cottage, 1, Strand, Lympstone
- OS grid reference
- SX 990 841
- Coordinates
- 50.64811, -3.42977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clay's Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage that is part of a row of buildings. It may incorporate some earlier work. The cottage is constructed from random rubble limestone and features a gabled-end pantiled roof. It has a two-room layout with a central entrance hall that contains the stairs, and there are end stacks, with the left-hand stack being external. To the right-hand end of the front, there is a projection under a small catslide, which is likely the remains of a stair turret that originally served No. 1 Clay's Cottage. The building has two storeys.
The front of the cottage has three windows: two 24-pane sash windows and a central 12-pane horizontally sliding sash window on the first floor, all with wooden sill guide pegs. The ground floor features similar 18-pane sash windows, along with a 20th-century pantiled central porch.
Local climate
Clay's Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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