Tiny Thatch and Clovelly Cottage and Adjoining Cobbled Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

Tiny Thatch and Clovelly Cottage and Adjoining Cobbled Steps

WRENN ID
shifting-alcove-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1985
Type
House
Address
Tiny Thatch and Clovelly Cottage and Adjoining Cobbled Steps, EX17 4LZ
OS grid reference
SS 828 025
Coordinates
50.81022, -3.66465
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tiny Thatch and Clovelly Cottage, along with the adjoining cobbled steps, is a house that was formerly two cottages. It dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century and the late 18th century to early 19th century. The building is constructed from plastered cob and rubble, with cob, rubble, and brick stacks, topped by a thatched roof.

The structure features a four-room layout facing west. The two-room Tiny Thatch is at the left (north) end, with a projecting end stack, while Clovelly Cottage is to the right (south) and has a rear lateral stack for the left room and a rear end corner stack for the right room. The front has an irregular arrangement of four windows, which are late 19th and 20th century casements, some with glazing bars, with two windows for each cottage and roughly central doors. Clovelly Cottage has a 20th-century monopitch tiled hood. The roof is gabled on the left and hipped on the right.

Inside, the carpentry detail is plain. The left end room of Tiny Thatch is slightly misaligned compared to the rest of the building and appears to have originally been a one-room cottage from the late 17th to early 18th century, with the remainder added in the late 18th to early 19th century. The cobbled path on the west side, which leads up into long shallow steps, is also included in the listing.

Local climate

Tiny Thatch and Clovelly Cottage and Adjoining Cobbled Steps 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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