Hunters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Hunters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-gargoyle-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hunters Cottage, Dunkeswell, EX14 4QZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 141 077
- Coordinates
- 50.86278, -3.22147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hunters Cottage is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century that has been thoroughly modernised around 1970. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble, possibly with some cob, and features stone rubble stacks topped with plastered 20th-century brick, along with a thatch roof. The cottage has a three-room plan and is situated alongside the lane, facing east-north-east. The right (south) end has a rear lateral stack, while the centre room contains an axial stack that backs onto the unheated left end room, which has now been converted into a garage. The building is two storeys high and has a secondary outshot on the left (north) end.
The exterior displays an irregular four-window front with 20th-century casements that include glazing bars. The front doorway, located left of centre and leading into the centre room, features a 20th-century plank door behind a contemporary gabled porch. Garage doors have been added to the former left end room. The roof is gable-ended.
Inside, the cottage has been largely altered due to the 1970 modernisation, although the original structure seems to be mostly intact. Both fireplaces are blocked. The right room has a roughly-finished crossbeam, while the centre room features a chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeam. The roof space was not inspected, but the bases of straight principals visible on the first floor suggest they are from original A-frame trusses. Hunters Cottage is part of a group of traditional thatch-roofed buildings near the Church of St Nicholas.
Local climate
Hunters Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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