The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1976. A C17 House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-quoin-meadow
- 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
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Brampford Speke
- OS grid reference
- SX 927 982
- Coordinates
- 50.77398, -3.52217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house with a core dating back to the 17th century, which has been significantly enlarged and altered in the 18th century and early 19th century. It is constructed of cob, rendered, and features a thatched gabled-end roof. The building consists of two blocks: one from the 18th or early 19th century facing east, which is attached and parallel to an older block facing west. The older block has a large external lateral stack and remnants of a dismantled left-hand end stack.
On the ground floor, there is a 3-light window to the left of the door, and above it, there are two 3-light windows and one 2-light window. The front of the building has two bays, with two mid-19th century canted bays featuring slated roofs at ground level, below two 20th century 3-light casement windows set under eyebrow eaves, which have scratch-moulded architraves supported on small moulded brackets. There are two end stacks.
At the south-west angle of the block, there is a small timber blind arcade with Tuscan pilasters that frames a back door. The Cottage, formerly known as Tower Lodge, is part of a picturesque group when viewed from the River Exe, alongside the parish church and its associated walling.
Local climate
The 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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