St John's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1953. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

St John's Cottage

WRENN ID
stubborn-sandstone-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exeter
Constituency
Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1953
Type
Cottage
Address
St John's Cottage, Polsloe Road, EX1 2HW
OS grid reference
SX 932 932
Coordinates
50.72879, -3.5137
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St John’s Cottage is a good example of a later "Cottage Ornée" built around 1840. It is a two-storey building rendered in a white finish. The front facing the garden features a verandah and two steeply-pitched gables. The windows have six hood moulds above them, fancy glazing bars, and casements. The gables have pierced bargeboards. The roof is slate-covered.

Local climate

St John's Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
  • 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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