Mortimers Snows is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Mortimers Snows
- WRENN ID
- empty-tin-weasel
- 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
- Mortimers Snows, Sandford, EX17 4PP
- OS grid reference
- SS 796 035
- Coordinates
- 50.81878, -3.71015
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mortimers and Snows are two cottages dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, which were both thoroughly modernised around 1970. The exterior features partly exposed rubble and partly roughcast cob, with rubble stacks topped by 19th and 20th-century brick. The cottages face southeast and have a two-room plan. The right cottage, Mortimers, has a central through passage and end stacks, while the left stack is shared with the adjoining Snows Cottage to the southwest. Snows has a late 19th to early 20th-century slate-roofed rear block.
The cottages are two storeys high with an irregular six-window front overall. Mortimers features 20th-century PVC windows of various sizes, and if a fifth window existed to the left of centre, it would create an almost symmetrical front. Snows has irregularly placed windows of various sizes, all of which are late 19th-century casements with glazing bars and unusually tall and narrow panes. The roof is hipped to the left and gable-ended to the right. Inside, there is plain carpentry detail, although the roofs were not inspected. Mortimers is likely the older 18th-century cottage, with Snows added in the 19th century.
Local climate
Mortimers Snows 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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