Cliffe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. Cottage.

Cliffe Cottage

WRENN ID
swift-zinc-stoat
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
Cliffe Cottage, Sowden Lane, Lympstone
OS grid reference
SX 988 839
Coordinates
50.64645, -3.43205
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cliffe Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on Sowden Lane in Lympstone. The building is rendered, possibly brick, and features a gabled end slate roof. It has a double depth plan, with front and rear rooms situated on the left side of the entrance hall. There are rear and end stacks with brick shafts. The cottage is two storeys tall and has an asymmetrical front with a two-window range. All three windows consist of two lights, featuring 19th-century casements with three panes per light and margin panes. The entrance includes a fielded panel door, which is sheltered by a canopy supported by shaped brackets. On the right side, there is a 16-pane hornless sash window, and a 12-pane sliding sash window is located in the basement.

Local climate

Cliffe 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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