Kingdom Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1967. Cottage.
Kingdom Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-timber-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Kingdom Cottage, King Street, Colyton
- OS grid reference
- SY 244 940
- Coordinates
- 50.74079, -3.07242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingdom Cottage is a cottage, reputedly formerly the old jail, dating from around the 16th century. It is constructed of stuccoed stone rubble and features a thatched roof with gabled ends. The building has two storeys and a three-window range, with 18th and 19th century three-light casements that have leaded panes. The central entrance has a flush panelled door topped with a hood supported by massive shaped brackets.
Inside, the cottage boasts jointed cruck trusses and retains the remains of a plank and muntin screen in the cross passage. There is a fireplace on the back wall with a chamfered lintel and chamfered stone jambs, as well as a four-centred arch stone chimneypiece in the rear room on the first floor. The ceilings feature stopped and chamfered beams, and there is a chamfered wooden mullion window at the rear. A datestone inside the cottage reads "1609".
Local climate
Kingdom Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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