Vine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1986. Residential.

Vine Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 April 1986
Type
Residential
Address
Vine Cottage, Longmeadow Road, Lympstone
OS grid reference
SX 999 840
Coordinates
50.6479, -3.41665
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Vine Cottage is a detached house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on stone footings and features a hipped thatched roof. Originally, it had a three-room, cross-passage plan, with the service end located to the left of the passage and a small service-end rear wing. The service end is heated by an external end stack, while the hall is heated by a rear external lateral stack. The inner room, which was originally unheated, received an internal end stack, likely added in the 19th century. All stacks have brick shafts.

The house has two storeys and a front elevation with a three-window range. The first floor features two-light casement windows with lintels at eaves level, and there are two-light casement windows in each of the ground floor rooms. A lean-to pantiled open porch is present, along with a wide fielded panel door. The rear wing has a catslide roof and includes one small casement window on the inner face. Additionally, there is another two-light casement window on the first floor of the main elevation, positioned between the wing and the hall stack. The interior has not been inspected, but the ceiling beams appear to be from after the 17th century, with 19th-century joinery details visible.

Local climate

Vine Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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