Saxons is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Saxons
- WRENN ID
- lone-attic-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Saxons, Whimple, EX5 2NT
- OS grid reference
- SY 040 977
- Coordinates
- 50.77144, -3.36215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Saxons is a small cottage dating from the mid to late 19th century, which was modernised around 1980. It is constructed of plastered cob and stone rubble, with a stone rubble stack topped with 19th-century brick, and features a thatched roof. The cottage has a small two-room plan and faces northeast. The larger room on the left (southeast) side has a gable-end stack. It is two storeys tall, with a single-storey extension added to the left end in 1980.
The exterior has a symmetrical two-window front with 20th-century casements that include glazing bars. The smaller first-floor windows are adorned with thatch eyebrows. The central doorway features a 20th-century two-flap door and is sheltered by a contemporary shingle-roofed porch. The roof is hipped at both ends. Inside, there is plain carpentry detail where it is exposed. Saxons is part of a charming group of small thatch-roofed cottages at Knowle Cross, but it is the only cottage in the group not shown on the 1845 parish tithe map.
Local climate
Saxons receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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