Copper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1987. Cottage.
Copper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-bronze-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Copper's Cottage, Fore Street, Kentisbeare
- OS grid reference
- ST 068 082
- Coordinates
- 50.86599, -3.32491
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Copper's Cottage is a cottage that is part of a row of buildings, dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of roughcast cob and features a gable end roof covered with asbestos tiles. The cottage has a single-cell house plan with a cross-passage to the left and later extensions at the rear. Inside, there is an internal rear lateral stack with a brick shaft. The building has two storeys and the front exterior includes a two-window range, with two ground floor windows located to the right of the entrance; all of these are 20th-century casements. Inside, the ground floor room has a chamfered cross ceiling beam with eroded step stops, and there is a stud and plaster partition separating this room from the passage. The roof timbers appear to have been largely replaced. Copper's Cottage is part of a row that includes other buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries, such as Spratt's Cottage, The Cottage, and Rose Cottage.
Local climate
Copper's Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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