St Breocks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1992. Cottage.

St Breocks Cottage

WRENN ID
rusted-gallery-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 October 1992
Type
Cottage
Address
St Breocks Cottage, Union Terrace, Crediton
OS grid reference
SS 833 002
Coordinates
50.78989, -3.65641
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Breocks Cottage is a small urban cottage built around 1810-1820, possibly as a remodelling of an earlier house. It is constructed of roughcast cob and features a flat tarred roof, with the stack not visible. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the main block running parallel to the road, single depth, and one room wide, with an entrance at the right end facing the stair. There is a front left wing at right angles, which contains one room.

The cottage is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with one window. To the right is a recessed four-panel front door, while to the left is a ground floor bow with a sash window that has 5/10 panes, although the top light was originally 10 panes. Above, on the first floor, is a 16-pane sash window. Both windows retain some old glass. The inner return of the wing features a front door with four fielded panels and 16-pane sash windows.

Inside, there is reeded moulding around the bow and some 19th-century joinery. St Breocks Cottage is part of a row that includes some of the best Georgian houses in Crediton.

Local climate

St Breocks Cottage 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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