Sunnybank Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1987. Cottage.
Sunnybank Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-render-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sunnybank Cottage, Newton Poppleford and Harpford
- OS grid reference
- SY 076 905
- Coordinates
- 50.7072, -3.30893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sunnybank Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was modernised in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with one end rebuilt in brick. The cottage features a brick stack topped with plastered brick and has a thatched roof, with slate on the outshots. The building has a two-room plan and faces south, with a stack located at the left (western) end. The front right corner of the cottage adjoins the rear corner of Stream Cottage. At the rear, there are secondary two-storey outshots, and part of the outshots behind Stream Cottage belongs to Sunnybank Cottage.
The cottage is two storeys high and has a regular but not symmetrical two-window front, featuring 19th-century casements with glazing bars. There are thatch eyebrows over the first-floor windows. The doorway is located at the right end, behind a 20th-century porch with a monopitch slate roof. The roof is hipped to the right and gable-ended to the left. The left end wall contains 20th-century casements and appears to have been rebuilt. Inside, the left room has a 17th-century soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeam. The roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
Sunnybank 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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