Alwyne Smeath's Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1975. A C18 Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Alwyne Smeath's Cottages
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1975
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Alwyne Smeath's Cottages, 1 and 2, Church Road, Lympstone, EX8 5JT
- OS grid reference
- SX 992 842
- Coordinates
- 50.64899, -3.42683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of three cottages dates from the 18th century, with alterations in the 19th century and later. The cottages are built with roughcast and plastered cob on stone footings, with some brick detailing. They have gabled-end thatched roofs. Each cottage is two rooms deep and one room wide. Internal left-hand end stacks and two axial stacks, all with brick shafts are present, along with a dormer window to each cottage. "Alwyne," the left-hand cottage, has a two-light metal casement window on the first floor, and a canted bay window with a 1:2:1 pane design below, to the left of a plain door with a rectangular fanlight under a canopy supported by shaped brackets. The central cottage is bow-fronted, with a sixteen-pane hornless sash window on each floor; it has a glazed door to the right and a rectangular fanlight, with a canopy matching that of "Alwyne." The right-hand cottage features late 20th-century hornless sash windows to the front and 20th-century casements to the end elevation. The cottages are included on the list for their contribution to the group value of the surrounding area, particularly in relation to the nearby church and the cottages opposite.
Local climate
Alwyne Smeath's Cottages receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
- 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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