Lillybrook 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.

Lillybrook Cottage

WRENN ID
roaming-threshold-coral
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
Lillybrook Cottage, Sandford, EX17 4BU
OS grid reference
SS 839 050
Coordinates
50.8335, -3.64929
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lillybrook Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages, now functioning as a single house. It dates back to the 16th century, with improvements from the 17th century and alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. The structure features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble or cob stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and a wheat reed thatched roof. Originally, it was a three-room-and-through-passage house facing south, with the former inner room located at the left (west) end. The interior was rearranged in the 18th century when it was divided into two cottages.

The building has projecting end stacks and a lateral hall stack that projects to the front. There are continuous outshots across the back wall, which faces the road. It is two storeys tall and has a four-window front featuring late 19th-century and 20th-century casements, with two windows on each side of a roughly central stack. Two small first-floor windows to the right have thatch eyebrows above them, while the windows to the left rise into the eaves. A 20th-century door leads to the former passage, located to the right of centre, and there is a secondary cottage door at the left end.

Inside, the left room, which was the former inner room, contains a late 16th to early 17th-century axial beam that is chamfered with step stops. The hall fireplace features a possibly reset 16th-century oak lintel. The roof over the hall appears to consist of 18th-century trusses.

Local climate

Lillybrook 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
  • 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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