Hillside, Orchard Cottage and Adjoining Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. A C18 Residential building.
Hillside, Orchard Cottage and Adjoining Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- turning-solder-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Residential building
- OS grid reference
- SS 924 020
- Coordinates
- 50.80815, -3.52837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hillside, Orchard Cottage, and the adjoining outbuilding are two connected houses and an outbuilding located on Bullen Street in Thorverton. They date from the 18th century or earlier and feature colourwashed rendered cob construction. The roof of Hillside is thatched, while Orchard Cottage has a tiled roof and is gabled at the right end, which continues to the adjoining outbuilding. The buildings have one stack at the rear of the ridge and two lateral stacks, one made of brick and the other with a rendered shaft.
The structure is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has two windows on one side and two on the other, with front doors positioned to the right of each house. The windows are 2 and 3-light casements with square leaded panes, likely from the 18th century, except for the ones beside the front door of Hillside, which are 20th-century replacements. The single-storey outbuilding at the right end is partly weatherboarded and features a plank door on the left, probably dating from the 18th century. The thatch of Hillside extends over a cart entrance between this range and the adjacent property at No. 3 Bullen Street. The interior was not inspected during the survey, so details about it are unclear.
Local climate
Hillside, Orchard Cottage and Adjoining Outbuilding receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% 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 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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