Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Cottage.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-footing-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Garden Cottage, Kennerleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 819 074
- Coordinates
- 50.85424, -3.67822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden Cottage is a cottage that was formerly a school, likely built in the late 18th century to early 19th century, and renovated and extended in 1947. The structure is made of plastered cob on rubble footings, with a rubble or cob stack topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. Originally, it had a one-room plan facing east, with single-storey extensions added to the front and left (south) in 1947. The stack is located in the left end wall. The cottage has two storeys and features a one-window front and rear with 20th-century casements, two of which have glazing bars. The ground floor front includes the site of the original door to the left, which is now obscured by the extensions. The roof is hipped to the right. Most early internal features are hidden, and the roof is inaccessible, although the bottoms of the plain principals are visible. The cottage is included for its strong group value as it backs onto the churchyard. The 1947 extensions are not included in the listing.
Local climate
Garden 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
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