Lowertown Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1988. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Lowertown Cottage

WRENN ID
open-cinder-poplar
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
Lowertown Cottage, Luppitt, EX14 4SJ
OS grid reference
ST 172 061
Coordinates
50.84868, -3.17652
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lowertown Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 18th century and has undergone significant alterations in the early 20th century. It is constructed from plastered local stone rubble, possibly with some cob, and features a stone rubble stack topped with 20th-century brick. The main cottage has a thatched roof and a small two-room layout facing northeast. The larger room on the right is heated by a gable-end stack. There is an early 20th-century single-storey service outshot on the left (southeast) end, which includes a front lateral stack. The cottage is two storeys high.

The exterior has a two-window front with 20th-century casements that do not have glazing bars. The front doorway is located on the left, behind a 20th-century lean-to porch. The roof is gable-ended on the right and half-hipped on the left. Inside, there is little exposed carpentry detail, and the fireplace has been blocked.

Local climate

Lowertown 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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