Chaffcombe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Chaffcombe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-banister-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chaffcombe Cottage, Chaffcombe Lane, Down St. Mary, EX17 5LE
- OS grid reference
- SS 757 030
- Coordinates
- 50.8137, -3.765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chaffcombe Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the 17th century with an 19th-century extension. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick, and a thatched roof to the original cottage section and corrugated iron to the extension. Originally a single-room plan cottage facing south, it has a stack at the right (east) end. A single-room extension is set back from the front, also with an end stack. The main block has a two-window front with a variety of late 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. A ground floor door on the left likely obscures the original front door. A slate-roofed oven projection is located at the right end, and the original chimney shaft has been extended in the 20th century. The extension features a single 19th-century casement and a part-glazed panelled door to the left, alongside a 20th-century glass-fronted conservatory across the front, with its own gable-ended roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Chaffcombe Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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