Glen Cottage and Adjoining Cob Wall to North West is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1965. Cottage.

Glen Cottage and Adjoining Cob Wall to North West

WRENN ID
still-spire-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1965
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SS 822 000
Coordinates
50.78846, -3.67117
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Glen Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century, accompanied by an adjoining cob wall. The cottage features plastered cob on rubble footings, with a stone or cob stack topped with 19th century brick and a thatched roof. It is a one-room cottage with a stack that projects from the north-west gable end, and there is a single-storey 20th century extension to the left end.

The cottage has one window on the front, which is a 19th century two-light casement with glazing bars located to the left at first floor level, topped with a thatch eyebrow. To the right of the front is an 18th or 19th century plank door set in a plain solid frame. The roof is half-hipped to the left. The rear of the cottage has a two-window front with 19th and 20th century casements, both featuring glazing bars.

The adjoining boundary wall is made of plastered cob on rubble footings, capped with pitched pantiles, and includes a 19th century plank door with plain strap hinges. The wall extends north-west from the right front corner of the cottage to meet a similar wall belonging to The Old Smithy.

Local climate

Glen Cottage and Adjoining Cob Wall to North West 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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