Dicklegg End is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. Cottage.
Dicklegg End
- WRENN ID
- roaming-keystone-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dicklegg End, Colebrooke
- OS grid reference
- SS 771 007
- Coordinates
- 50.7929, -3.74403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dicklegg End is a cottage, originally two cottages, dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob or stone rubble stacks topped by 19th and 20th-century brick, and features a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and faces east, away from the road. At the left (south) end, there is a through passage with a small chamber above, situated between the main house and the adjoining Berries Brook.
The left room contains an axial stack that backs onto the passage, while the right room has a projecting end stack with a secondary oven projection. The cottage is two storeys high and has an irregular four-window front, featuring various late 19th and 20th-century replacement casements. The first-floor right end window has a thatch eyebrow above it. The right room slightly protrudes from the front, and each room has a door to the left of its window. The right room includes a main door with a 20th-century porch under a corrugated asbestos monopitch roof, supported by shaped late 19th-century brackets that were originally for a hood. The left room's door and window are now behind a 20th-century conservatory.
The roof is gable-ended, and the interior of the right room features a 17th-century plain-chamfered crossbeam and a stone rubble fireplace with an oak lintel that is ogee-moulded and enriched with incised motifs. The smaller left room has a 17th-century crossbeam with soffit-chamfering and scroll stops, but its fireplace is blocked. Although the roof is inaccessible, the base of the truss principals is visible over the right room, indicating that the original roof structure may still exist. Over the left room, purlins of large scantling support the roof between the internal cob crosswall and the left end stack. The quality of the fireplace in the right room suggests that the building was not originally two small cottages but became so in the 18th century, before being reunited as a single house in the 20th century.
Local climate
Dicklegg End 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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