Peak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
Peak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-postern-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Peak Cottage, Peak Hill Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8RZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 112 868
- Coordinates
- 50.67451, -3.25723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Peak Cottage is a detached house located halfway up Peak Hill, raised above road level and largely hidden from view. It features early 19th century "cottage ornee" embellishments on an older farm cottage. The building is long and low, constructed of stucco with one storey and an attic. It has a thatched roof with eaves that sweep out to form a verandah, supported by cast iron columns and featuring a fretted eaves fascia. There are six thatched casement dormers and three "Gothic" French windows on the ground floor, which have wooden shaped drip moulds with scroll ends that are possibly later additions. The front of the cottage is screened from the entrance courtyard by a modern extension designed in a sympathetic style, which includes a thatched roof, garage, and doorway. The overall appearance is picturesque.
Local climate
Peak Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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