Lilac Cottage and Cider House Adjoining at East is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Cottage.

Lilac Cottage and Cider House Adjoining at East

WRENN ID
knotted-banister-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 August 1987
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SS 941 070
Coordinates
50.85349, -3.50486
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lilac Cottage and the adjoining cider house date from the 18th century or earlier. The cottage is built of colourwashed rendered stone, with the right end wall reportedly made of cob. It has a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end, featuring a rear lateral stack with a brick shaft. The adjoining cider house is constructed from stone rubble and has a tiled roof.

The cottage has a single depth, two-room plan, with direct entry into the larger heated room on the right and an unheated service room on the left. A straight stair is located against the wall between the two rooms. The thatch extends down to form a catslide roof over a small triangular outshut at the rear. The cider house includes access to a loft at the right end.

The building is two storeys high and has an approximately symmetrical two-window front, featuring a concrete block gabled porch from the early 20th century and a plank front door. There are two first-floor two-light windows with lapped glass panes, and a similar ground-floor window on the right with a segmental head. The ground-floor window on the left is an early 20th-century addition. Lilac Cottage faces gable onto the road, with a first-floor two-light casement window and a small one-light window on the ground floor at the left end. The irregular rear elevation is particularly attractive, with the thatch of the main roof extending over the outshut to create a conical rear roof.

The interior has not been thoroughly inspected, but the ground floor on the right features one chamfered cross beam, and other original features may still exist. This cottage is a notably unspoiled example of vernacular architecture and is part of a well-preserved group at the south end of Church Green.

Local climate

Lilac Cottage and Cider House Adjoining at East 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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