Bickleigh Cottage Guest House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Bickleigh Cottage Guest House
- WRENN ID
- long-terrace-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bickleigh Cottage Guest House, Tiverton, EX16 8RJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 937 076
- Coordinates
- 50.85872, -3.51081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bickleigh Cottage Guest House is a house that likely dates back to the 17th century. It was truncated on the left side for road widening in 1906 and partly remodeled in the 1930s, with a later extension added in the late 20th century. The building features a render on what is probably cob and has wheat reed thatched roofs, except for the mostly Roman clay tile roof on the right-hand return that overlooks the river. There are two large brick lateral stacks at the rear, one on the left and one on the right, while the central hall stack has been truncated.
The original layout consisted of a three-room plan at the front, which has been altered to two rooms plus an entrance hall due to truncation. The building has been extended at the rear with wings at right angles, likely from the 17th and 18th centuries, and a parallel wing added in the late 20th century.
The exterior is two storeys high and features a slightly irregular three-window range with oak framed windows from 1906, which have iron casements and leaded glazing. The first floor has two-light windows, while the far-right window is a taller transomed window that breaks the eaves under a thatched gable. The ground floor has four-light windows on the left and right, with a two-light window to the right of the doorway. There is a buttressed doorway with a thatched roof supported by corbels and an oak planked door. The right-hand return has a similar buttressed doorway with a thatched roof on the second bay from the left, and there are various 20th-century windows.
Inside, the central room features an original chamfered axial beam, and the feet of probable 17th-century trusses can be seen in the rear left-hand wing, although the main roof was not inspected. Other visible features, such as the oak staircase and some panelled doors, are mostly likely from 1906.
Local climate
Bickleigh Cottage Guest House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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