The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-lintel-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Bicton, EX9 7BW
- OS grid reference
- SY 054 856
- Coordinates
- 50.66287, -3.3391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage and former outbuilding, likely built in the late 18th to early 19th century. The walls are plastered and appear to be made from a mix of materials, including cob, stone rubble, and brick. It features brick stacks and chimney shafts, and the roof of the former outbuilding is corrugated. The cottage has a two-room plan, facing north with a central through-passage and end stacks, and it is two storeys high.
To the left (east) of the cottage is a single-storey block that was once an outbuilding but has now been converted for domestic use. The front of the cottage is nearly symmetrical, with two windows arranged around a central doorway that features a probably late 19th-century plank door. The windows on either side have segmental arched heads and are three-light casements without glazing bars. The first-floor windows are two-light casements with glazing bars and are half dormers, also with thatch segmental arches above. There are two additional casements with glazing bars in the former outbuilding to the left. All the windows date from the late 19th to early 20th century.
The main roof of the cottage is hipped on the right and gable-ended on the left, while the outbuilding has a gable-ended roof. The interior contains only late 19th and 20th-century joinery and plaster details, with structural timbers not exposed and fireplaces blocked by 20th-century grates. The roof has not been inspected. The cottage is part of a group of buildings in an attractive hamlet.
Local climate
The 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- 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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