2, 3 and 4 is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Cottages.

2, 3 and 4

WRENN ID
errant-basalt-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1984
Type
Cottages
Address
2, 3 and 4, Shobrooke
OS grid reference
SS 867 013
Coordinates
50.80053, -3.60893
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 2, 3, and 4 are three cottages that were originally a single house, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with modernisations and extensions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The buildings are constructed of plastered cob and rubble, with some brickwork from the 19th and 20th centuries; they have cob or stone stacks topped with brick, and a thatched roof that has been partly replaced with concrete tiles on the left side. The original layout was a three-room plan with a through passage, and the inner room is located in No. 2.

The cottages are two storeys high, featuring brick gable stacks and a large projecting lateral stack made of brick above the eaves at the front of the hall (No. 3). The front has five windows, which are 19th and 20th century casements of irregular sizes and placements, some of which have glazing bars. The first-floor window to the left of the stack has two lights with twelve small square panes per casement. There is a door to No. 3, located to the right of the stack, leading into the through passage. Immediately to the right is an inserted 19th-century door to No. 4, which has a 20th-century porch with a monopitch roof made of corrugated iron.

Inside, the cottages have largely 19th-century fittings, so many early features are not visible. However, an oak plank and muntin screen is exposed on the lower side of the passage, with 16th-century framing above, which now serves as the party wall between Nos. 3 and 4. In No. 4, the side-pegged, jointed cruck roof is exposed, and the hall features an axial 17th-century beam that is chamfered with scroll stops. The 19th-century additions to the rear of No. 2 are not included in this description.

Local climate

2, 3 and 4 receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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