Broxford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Broxford Cottage

WRENN ID
seventh-rubblework-elder
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
Broxford Cottage, Upton Hellions, EX17 4AH
OS grid reference
SS 850 034
Coordinates
50.81918, -3.63262
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Broxford Cottage is a cottage built in the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed from volcanic rubble with squared volcanic dressings and features rubble stacks topped with rendered brick chimneyshafts, all under a thatched roof. The building is L-shaped, consisting of a main block with one room and an entrance lobby facing south, and a service wing at the rear of the left (west) end. There are end stacks on each wing.

The cottage is two storeys high and has a one-window front featuring 20th-century replacement casements with glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is a three-light window under a segmental arch made of volcanic stone towards the right end, and a smaller two-light window on the first floor, both of which have shutters and are topped with thatched gables. A plank door is located at the left end, which has a stone-walled porch with a gabled and tiled roof. Each end corner of the cottage has rusticated chamfered quoins made of volcanic stone. A stack projects from the right gable end, and the roof is hipped to the right. The gable end at the rear and the short west side include a narrow single light on the first floor, also topped with a thatched gable.

Local climate

Broxford 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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