Rill Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Cottage.

Rill Cottages

WRENN ID
open-sill-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Rill Cottages, 1 and 2, Morebath
OS grid reference
SS 966 254
Coordinates
51.01937, -3.47542
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rill Cottages is a pair of adjoining cottages, likely built in the early 19th century. They are colourwashed and rendered, topped with a slate roof that has gabled ends. The cottages feature end stacks and an axial stack with brick shafts. The layout consists of a single-depth plan with a rear wing; the right-hand cottage is double-fronted with an entrance between two rooms, while the left-hand cottage is smaller with an entrance located on the front at the right. The cottages are two storeys tall and have an asymmetrical window arrangement with two and three windows. Both cottages have identical gabled brick porches with timber lattice gables and are fitted with a complete set of 19th-century two-light small-pane casements. These cottages are an attractive pair situated prominently at one of the entrances to Morebath Manor.

Local climate

Rill Cottages receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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