Lychgate Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1976. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Lychgate Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-outpost-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lychgate Cottage, Upton Pyne, EX5 5JA
- OS grid reference
- SX 910 976
- Coordinates
- 50.76859, -3.54638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lychgate Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Upton Pyne. It features plastered cob walls resting on a stone plinth, topped with a thatched roof and gabled ends. The building has an L-shaped layout, with a shorter wing that may have originally been a barn, now incorporated into the house and consisting of a single storey with a hipped roof. The main part of the cottage is designed in a three-room plan, with end stacks; the left-hand (west) stack includes a bake oven projection and a fire window beside it.
The cottage has two storeys, with three windows on each floor, featuring 19th and 20th-century two and three-light casements with glazing bars. The left-hand ground floor has a 20th-century oriel window on carved brackets, which likely indicates the original doorway's location. The current right-hand doorway is sheltered by a thatched hood. The former outbuilding's external door has been replaced with a renewed plank door set in an opening with a stopped and chamfered lintel. Inside, the division between the two right-hand rooms is marked by a stud and plaster screen that is unchamfered and unstopped. The roof consists of three bays divided by large principals with collars.
Local climate
Lychgate Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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