Acacia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1974. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Acacia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-span-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Acacia Cottage, Friars Green, EX2 4DB
- OS grid reference
- SX 920 921
- Coordinates
- 50.71928, -3.53024
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Acacia Cottage is a late 18th or early 19th century brick building. It is two storeys high and has three windows. The cottage features two-storey canted bays on either side, with late 19th century sash windows. It has a bracketed eaves cornice, a parapet, a slate roof, and brick end stacks. Acacia Cottage forms a group with Magnolia House and Lawn House.
Local climate
Acacia 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- 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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