The Saddlers is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1978. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Saddlers
- WRENN ID
- hushed-cobalt-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Saddlers, Back Lane, Sandford, EX17 4NQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 828 024
- Coordinates
- 50.80954, -3.66406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Saddlers is a building that consists of two cottages, which have been combined into one. It likely dates from the 18th century and was modernized around 1978. The structure features partly plastered cob on rubble footings and partly exposed rubble, with a rubble stack that is topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof.
The building has an irregular gable-ended shape facing southeast. It includes a former one-room plan cottage with a rubble front and an end stack to the left (southwest), as well as a former two-room plan cottage that is rendered and has disused rear stacks. The overall front has four irregular windows, which are a mix of late 19th-century and 20th-century casements with glazing bars.
The left end of the building has a rounded corner, with eaves that are higher and a ridge and roof pitch that are lower than the right-hand section. There is a door to the right of the former left cottage and a blocked door on the right cottage. The thatch lifts over two first-floor windows on the right cottage.
Local climate
The Saddlers 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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