Railway Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1987. Cottage.
Railway Cottage
- WRENN ID
- wild-latch-laurel
- 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
- Railway Cottage, Church Road, Colaton Raleigh
- OS grid reference
- SY 084 870
- Coordinates
- 50.67618, -3.29702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Railway Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was renovated and extended around 1985. It features plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with a stone rubble or cob stack topped with 18th and 19th-century brick, and a thatch roof along with an interlocking tile roof. The cottage has a two-room plan, facing south and backing onto the lane. The larger left room (west) is heated by a gable end stack, while the right room is unheated.
There is a single-storey extension on the right end that is narrower than the main house and set back from the front. The main house is two storeys high. The front has an irregular two-window arrangement with casements from around 1985 that include glazing bars, and a central plank door that is also contemporary. The roof is half-hipped on the right side and gable-ended on the left. The extension features two casements from around 1985 with glazing bars and a contemporary glazed door in between, with a gable-ended roof.
The interior was modernised around 1985. The crossbeam in the right room appears to be a replacement from that time, while the crossbeam in the left room is original, featuring a soffit-chamfered design with scroll stops. The fireplace is blocked, and the roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
Railway 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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