Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1976. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Bridge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-vestry-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bridge Cottage, Seaton Road, Axmouth, EX12 4AA
- OS grid reference
- SY 251 899
- Coordinates
- 50.70454, -3.06066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge Cottage is a former toll house built in 1877. It served as a toll house for the nearby Axmouth Bridge, which was designed by Philip Brannon and was the first concrete bridge constructed in England. This small, single-storey toll house is made of mass concrete and features a smooth render that simulates horizontal rustication. The roof is tarred and has a segmental arch shape, with the eaves extending over the roadside to create a canopy supported by large brackets. To the right of the entrance, there is a splayed bay, and the central doorway is flanked by two casement windows on the rusticated right and left return elevations. A chimney stack is positioned over the segmental gables. For further reference, see E de Maré's book, The Bridges of Britain, page 215.
Local climate
Bridge Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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