Prowse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Prowse Cottage

WRENN ID
final-pier-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Prowse Cottage, Prowse Lane, Sandford, EX17 4DW
OS grid reference
SS 840 055
Coordinates
50.83755, -3.6477
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Prowse Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, which was enlarged in 1984. The original structure features plastered cob walls built on rubble footings, and it has a cob or rubble stack topped with 20th-century brick. The cottage has a thatched roof and is gable-ended, consisting of two rooms that face southeast, with a projecting front lateral stack. The front has two windows, which are 20th-century casements, all located to the right of the stack, while the door is at the left end behind a 20th-century glass-sided porch with a thatched roof. Inside, the larger room on the right has an axial beam with straight out stops, and the carpentry details are otherwise plain. The 1984 extension to the right (northeast) has a thatched roof that extends over a two-storey, two-window range.

Local climate

Prowse 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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