Portway Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. A Georgian Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Portway Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-groin-pine
- 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
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Portway Cottage, Chardstock, EX13 7BA
- OS grid reference
- ST 317 028
- Coordinates
- 50.82108, -2.97011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Portway Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed from roughcast stone rubble, topped with a thatched roof that features stone coping at the gable ends. The building stands two storeys high and has a three-window range, with sash windows and a small casement window in the centre of the first floor. The ground floor includes a modern thatched porch and a modern single-storey lean-to extension on the left side. There are brick chimney stacks at both gable ends, and a modern flat-roofed extension is located at the rear. The cottage is positioned at right angles to the road.
Local climate
Portway Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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