Furshamdown Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Farmhouse.
Furshamdown Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-doorway-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Furshamdown Cottage, Hittisleigh
- OS grid reference
- SX 712 944
- Coordinates
- 50.7352, -3.82632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Furshamdown Cottage is a farmhouse, possibly originally a farmhouse and adjoining cottage, likely dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with a rubble stack topped by 19th-century brick and a thatched roof. The building features a three-room layout facing south-west, with an axial stack serving back-to-back flues located to the right of the center. There is a baffle entry and outshots at each end. The cottage is two storeys high and has a balanced five-window front, with 19th and 20th-century casements, some of which have glazing bars, and one single fixed light towards the left end with leaded rectangular panes. The door is positioned to the right of center and is sheltered by a hipped thatch-roofed porch. The roof is hipped on each side and extends over the flanking outshots. Inside, there is plain carpentry detail. The windows on either side of the existing doorway appear to block former doorways, indicating that the original arrangement likely consisted of a two-room farmhouse on the left with an adjoining one-room cottage.
Local climate
Furshamdown Cottage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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