Whitehorn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Whitehorn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- graven-cinder-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whitehorn Cottage, Hittisleigh, EX6 6LG
- OS grid reference
- SX 731 949
- Coordinates
- 50.74039, -3.7989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitehorn Cottage is a house that was formerly two cottages, likely built in the 18th century and combined in the 20th century. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped by 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. The building consists of a pair of two-room cottages that face southeast, away from the road. There is a rear lateral stack on the left (southwest) and an axial stack on the right (northeast). The cottage is two storeys high and has an overall six-window front, primarily featuring 20th-century casements, except for a small late 18th to early 19th-century two-light casement left of centre, which has glazing bars and unusually small panes in the left light. There are doors at either end, with the left door located behind a 20th-century conservatory. The roof is half-hipped on the left and hipped on the right. Inside, the cottage has plain carpentry details and an exposed fireplace in the rear stack made of Drewsteighton granite rubble with a plain oak lintel. The rear wall is blind.
Local climate
Whitehorn Cottage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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