Little Thatch Prings Cottage Wainwrights Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. A Late C18/early C19 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Little Thatch Prings Cottage Wainwrights Cottage

WRENN ID
scarred-pewter-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 March 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Little Thatch Prings Cottage Wainwrights Cottage, Luppitt, EX14 4TT
OS grid reference
ST 180 052
Coordinates
50.84074, -3.16478
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Thatch, Prings Cottage, and Wainwrights Cottage are a row of three cottages, likely built in the late 18th century to early 19th century. They are constructed from plastered local stone rubble, possibly with some cob, and feature stone rubble stacks with plastered brick chimney shafts, topped with thatch roofs. The cottages face south-south-west and are probably contemporary, each having a two-room plan with one heated room and one unheated room, though their layouts differ. Little Thatch is on the left (west) end and shares an axial stack with the middle cottage, Prings Cottage. Wainwrights Cottage is on the right (east) end and has an axial stack between its two rooms. The right end room of Wainwrights Cottage has been enlarged into a former forge in a crosswing that projects to the rear. This area is open to the roof, while the rest of the row is two storeys high with secondary rear outshots and service extensions.

The exterior features irregular front fenestration, with each cottage having three ground floor windows. The end cottage has one first floor window, while Prings Cottage has three first floor windows. These windows are a mix of 20th-century casements with glazing bars. Each cottage has a front doorway with a 20th-century door and a thatch-roofed porch. The interiors display plain carpentry detail where exposed.

Local climate

Little Thatch Prings Cottage Wainwrights Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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