Hare Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1965. Inn, house.
Hare Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-wicket-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1965
- Type
- Inn, house
- Address
- Hare Cottage, Sandford
- OS grid reference
- SS 795 034
- Coordinates
- 50.81817, -3.71101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hare Cottage is an inn that has been converted into a house, dating from around 1800 and extensively renovated in 1984. The building is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble and brick stacks, and features a thatched roof. It has a T-shaped layout, with the main block facing north-east and a crosswing on the right (north-west) that projects at both the front and back.
The main block includes a large hall or dining room with a lateral stack that projects to the rear at the right end, a parlour with round projections at the front and back and an axial stack in the centre, and stables with a hayloft above at the left end. The kitchen, located at the rear of the crosswing, has a large end stack, while the former cider-store in the centre and the current front garage were once a second parlour with a lateral stack. The front of the main block has an irregular arrangement of four late 19th-century windows with casements and glazing bars of various sizes. There is a door to the right of the parlour projection, and the crosswing features a three-light casement window on the first floor with a thatched gable above.
Inside, the cottage retains fittings from around 1800 and has an A-frame truss roof with nailed lap-jointed collars. A coin from 1799 was found in a brick and rubble nogged framed crosswall. The cottage was formerly connected to Fisher Cottage to the left (south-east) and was purpose-built as an inn on the former Crediton-Barnstaple road.
Local climate
Hare 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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