Whitehaven is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Whitehaven
- WRENN ID
- inner-moulding-grain
- 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
- Whitehaven, Church Street, Morchard Bishop, EX17 6PQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 770 075
- Coordinates
- 50.85425, -3.74791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This cottage, likely from the 18th century, is located on Church Street in Morchard Bishop. It is constructed of plastered cob and rubble, featuring a rubble stack with a 20th-century thick chimney shaft and a thatched roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and faces south, with a large projecting stack on the right (east) end. It is two storeys high and has a symmetrical front with three windows, which include late 19th to early 20th-century casements and a 20th-century copy with glazing bars. The central door is accompanied by a 20th-century gabled porch. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Whitehaven receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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