Howards Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Howards Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-hinge-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Howards Cottage, Sandford, EX17 4PP
- OS grid reference
- SS 797 036
- Coordinates
- 50.81967, -3.70821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Howards Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with a cob or rubble stack that has a 19th-century brick chimney shaft, and features a wheat reed thatched roof. The cottage has a one-room plan and faces southeast, with an entrance lobby to the right (northeast) and a stack on the left end. There is a slate-roofed outshot on the left end. The building is two storeys high and has a two-window front featuring late 19th-century and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The door is located to the right, behind a 20th-century glass-sided porch. The roof is half-hipped to the right and gabled-ended to the left. Inside, there is plain carpentry detail.
Local climate
Howards Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 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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