Wisteria Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Cottage.

Wisteria Cottage

WRENN ID
shadowed-jade-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Wisteria Cottage, Puddington
OS grid reference
SS 834 105
Coordinates
50.88278, -3.65829
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wisteria Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the mid-19th century. It is constructed from plastered cob and rubble, with a rubble stack featuring a chimney shaft made of 19th and 20th-century brick, and it has a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and faces southwest, with a central axial stack that serves back-to-back fireplaces. There are service outshots at the rear, and the building stands two storeys tall.

This cottage has a Gothick cottage ornee style, with an irregular frontage. On the ground floor, there is one window towards the left (northwest) end, which is a three-light casement containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. The first floor features three windows, each with triangular heads that project into the eaves and are topped with small thatched gables. All three windows have two triangular-headed lights but different types of glazing. The left end window has small rectangular panes of leaded glass, while the centre window has larger rectangular panes of leaded glass, both topped with heads filled with tiny diamond panes of leaded glass. The right window, which serves the stairs, has an overall lattice pattern of tiny diamond panes of leaded glass, many of which are tinted green.

At the right end of the cottage, there is a plank door with a hipped, thatch-roofed porch supported by plain posts on low side sleeper walls. The roof is gable-ended to the right and hipped to the left. The right end features late 19th to early 20th-century casements with glazing bars, while the left end has a ground floor three-light casement with rectangular panes of leaded glass. Much of the leaded glass throughout the cottage consists of original crown panes. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Wisteria Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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