Ashfields Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Cottage.
Ashfields Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-banister-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ashfields Cottage, Castlands, Newton St. Cyres
- OS grid reference
- SX 892 975
- Coordinates
- 50.76653, -3.57197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashfields Cottage is a Grade II listed building, formerly two cottages, likely dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob stacks topped by 19th-century brick. The roof is thatched and half-hipped on the left side (to the south). The building is two storeys high and features a four-window front with 20th-century wooden casements. The current door is located to the left of the centre, while the former door at the right end has been blocked and replaced with a window. The right-hand (northern) cottage is slightly larger and was probably built first. Inside, the internal cob dividing wall includes a fireplace that has been lined with stone, and the southern cottage has a fireplace in the rear corner stack, also lined with stone. Some stairs and partitions were removed during 20th-century modernisation.
Local climate
Ashfields Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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