Brim Close is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. A C17 Cottage.
Brim Close
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-bronze-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brim Close, Mounthill Lane, Musbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 278 946
- Coordinates
- 50.74692, -3.02346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brim Close is a cottage range dating from the 17th century. It is built of plastered stone rubble or cob and features a thatched roof with half-hipped ends. The building has one storey and an attic, with a long facade that includes four windows. The windows are two-light casements with leaded panes, and one has a chamfered frame. There is one attic window with eyebrow eaves above, as well as attic windows in the gable ends. The cottage has an external rendered stack on the front wall and two additional rendered chimney stacks at the ridge. A doorway is located to the left of the centre, which is sheltered by a thatched porch. At the east end, there is a lean-to structure.
Local climate
Brim Close receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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