Wakleys Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. Cottage.
Wakleys Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-cobble-sage
- 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
- Wakleys Cottage, Cotleigh
- OS grid reference
- ST 207 047
- Coordinates
- 50.83692, -3.12629
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wakleys Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the late 18th century to the early 19th century and was modernised in the mid-20th century. It is constructed from white-washed local stone and flint rubble, with stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and features a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room plan that faces north-west, with a central entrance lobby and staircase. Each room has an end stack, but only the left stack, serving the larger room, is original; the right stack is a 20th-century addition. The building is two storeys high.
The exterior has irregular front fenestration, with two ground floor windows and one first floor window, all of which are 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The front doorway is roughly central and features a 20th-century part-glazed door behind a contemporary gabled porch. The main roof is half-hipped on the right side and gable-ended on the left. The interior was not available for inspection during the survey, but some plain carpentry details were observed in the ground floor rooms, including the fireplace in the left room, which is made of plastered stone rubble with a chamfered oak lintel and includes an oven.
Local climate
Wakleys Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% 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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