Preston Bridge 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.
Preston Bridge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-granite-kestrel
- 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
- Preston Bridge Cottage, Sandford, EX17 4DA
- OS grid reference
- SS 849 048
- Coordinates
- 50.8315, -3.63517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Preston Bridge Cottage is a small cottage, likely dating from the mid to late 19th century, with a later extension added in the late 19th or early 20th century. The main cottage has walls of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble and brick stacks topped with brick, and a thatched roof. It is a gable-ended cottage, originally comprising two rooms, facing south-east, with a single-storey extension to the right (north-east). There are end stacks on both the main cottage and the extension. The front of the cottage has a symmetrical facade with two windows. A 20th-century porch with an asbestos tile roof covers the central front door. The windows are late 19th-century casements, with three lights on the ground floor and two lights in half dormers on the first floor, each with a thatched gable. The single-storey extension has a thatched roof with a hipped end.
Local climate
Preston Bridge 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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