Numbers 1 (Laburnum Cottage), 2 and 3 Pikes Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1987. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Numbers 1 (Laburnum Cottage), 2 and 3 Pikes Cottages

WRENN ID
worn-entrance-soot
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
Address
Numbers 1 (Laburnum Cottage), 2 and 3 Pikes Cottages, Church Road, Colaton Raleigh, EX10 0LL
OS grid reference
SY 081 872
Coordinates
50.67749, -3.30151
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 1 (Laburnum Cottage), 2, and 3 Pikes Cottages are a group of three cottages, likely originating as a 17th-century house that was subsequently subdivided and extended in the 18th century and modernized in the late 19th century. The walls are of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with stacks of stone rubble or brick, topped with late 19th-century brick, and a thatched roof. Brick outshots with slate roofs are present to the rear.

The cottages face south-south-west. Number 1 (Laburnum Cottage) has a three-room plan; the westernmost room may be a 19th-century addition. Number 2 is a single-room plan cottage, and Number 3 has a two-room plan. There is an axial stack between the central and left-hand rooms of Number 1, and another in the party wall between Numbers 1 and 2, serving back-to-back fireplaces. Number 2's left room has a rear lateral stack, and the right room has an end stack. All three cottages have 19th-century rear outshots. The main block is two storeys high.

The front has an irregular six-window arrangement. Number 1 has a symmetrical two-window arrangement on either side of the front door, with a third window on the left end. The ground floor windows are late 19th-century casements with glazing bars, and the first floor has late 19th-century horizontal sliding sash windows. Number 2 has a late 19th-century horizontal sliding sash with glazing bars on each floor and a late 19th-early 20th-century plank door behind a 20th-century monopitch, slate-roofed porch. Number 3 has ground floor casements and first-floor horizontal sliding sashes, and a 20th-century front door. The roof is continuous and gable-ended.

The interior of Number 1 was not inspected. Numbers 2 and 3 show mainly 19th- and 20th-century modernization. In Number 3, the beams are boxed in, and both houses have fireplaces blocked by 20th-century grates. However, Number 2 retains evidence of 17th-century work, including a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with run-out stops, and the bases of the principal rafters, which suggest a 17th-century roof. The survival of these features in Number 2 suggests that some early work may survive in the other cottages.

Local climate

Numbers 1 (Laburnum Cottage), 2 and 3 Pikes Cottages 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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