Oldborough Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Oldborough Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-vault-martin
- 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
- Oldborough Cottage, Sidborough Hill, Morchard Bishop, EX17 6SQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 772 063
- Coordinates
- 50.84365, -3.74418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oldborough Cottage is likely an 18th-century cottage located on the east side of Sidborough Hill, near Morchard Bishop. The construction consists of plastered cob walls on rubble footings, with rubble or cob stacks topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. The cottage originally had a 2-room plan with a central entrance facing south. It has end stacks. The front of the building has an irregular two-window arrangement featuring 20th-century casement windows without glazing bars. A roughly central door is sheltered by a 20th-century gabled porch with a thatched roof. The roof is hipped to the right and gable-ended to the left (west), featuring a large projecting stack. The interior has been modernised, with original beams boxed in and fireplaces blocked. The roof space has not been inspected. The cottage is included in the listing primarily for its group value.
Local climate
Oldborough Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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