Church Close is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Church Close
- WRENN ID
- sunken-timber-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Church Close, Poltimore, EX4 0AR
- OS grid reference
- SX 965 968
- Coordinates
- 50.76202, -3.46768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Close is a 18th-century cottage located in Poltimore. It is constructed of cob with a stone plinth and is rendered beneath a thatched roof with gabled ends. The cottage features a large internal stack on the left side, made of either cob or stone, and a right-hand end stack with a 19th-century brick shaft that has been further extended.
The building is two storeys high and has a front elevation with two windows on the upper floor, which are two-light windows positioned under eyebrow eaves, with boarded gables. The ground floor has two windows that are also two-light with three panes per light, set beneath Tudor-style square-headed hood moulds with labels. A central door is located under a gabled canopy that is supported by shaped brackets.
At the rear, which faces the churchyard, there is a timber porch that is accessed by external steps, along with 20th-century metal casement windows.
Local climate
Church Close receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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