Tale Head Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Tale Head Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-floor-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tale Head Cottage, Payhembury, EX14 3HL
- OS grid reference
- ST 071 018
- Coordinates
- 50.80912, -3.31917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tale Head Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 18th century and was enlarged around 1970. It is constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with a stone rubble or cob stack topped with 20th-century brick, and features a thatch roof. The cottage has a small three-room plan facing east-north-east. The left room, which includes the current entrance hall, was added around 1970. The central room is the main part of the original house and has an axial stack that backs onto the extension. The right end contains an unheated former service room. The cottage is two storeys high and has a regular but not symmetrical three-window front with 20th-century casements featuring glazing bars. The front doorway is located to the left of centre and is accessed through a contemporary thatch-roofed porch with a 20th-century door. The main roof is half-hipped on the left side and hipped on the right. Inside, the cottage has plain carpentry details where they are exposed.
Local climate
Tale Head Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% 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 23 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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