Gays Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Gays Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
eastward-brass-lark
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
Gays Farm Cottage, Gays Lane, Sandford, EX17 5NY
OS grid reference
SS 783 045
Coordinates
50.82793, -3.72888
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gays Farm Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 18th century, with a 20th-century extension. It has plastered cob or rubble footings, a cob stack with a rendered brick stop, and a thatched roof. The cottage is a gable-end, two-room structure facing south, with a stack projecting from the right (east) end and a single-room extension added to the west. It is two stories tall and features an irregular two-window front made up of late 19th-century casements of various sizes. The door is located at the left end. The single-storey extension has a hipped thatch roof and a tall rendered chimney shaft.

Local climate

Gays Farm 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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