Gaffers is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. Cottage.
Gaffers
- WRENN ID
- tall-clay-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gaffers, Membury
- OS grid reference
- ST 274 018
- Coordinates
- 50.8112, -3.03156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gaffers is a detached cottage, formerly known as "Haycroft Cottage," dating from 1785. It is built of stone rubble and has a concrete tile roof with gabled ends. The cottage is two storeys high and features a three-window range with 20th-century two-light casements that include glazing bars. There is a central doorway with a plank door and a rendered chimney stack at one gable end. At the opposite (east) end, there is a 20th-century one-storey flat roof extension. Inside, the cottage has chamfered ceiling beams and a fireplace bressummer. It is included for its group value.
Local climate
Gaffers receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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