South Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. House. 5 related planning applications.
South Cottage
- WRENN ID
- young-keep-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- South Cottage, (House Adjoining No 2 Fore Street), School Road, Silverton, EX5 4JH
- OS grid reference
- SS 955 028
- Coordinates
- 50.8159, -3.48368
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
South Cottage is a house adjoining, and potentially originally part of, No. 2 Fore Street in Silverton. It may incorporate elements from the 16th or 17th century. The walls are plastered cob with stone footings, and the roof is thatched with gabled ends. The house is two storeys high. The front of the house has a three-window range, featuring 19th and 20th-century casement windows. A lateral stack is located inside the front of the house, with a brick chimney shaft. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
South Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% 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 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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