The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-spindle-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Steer's Cottage, Brushford
- OS grid reference
- SS 672 081
- Coordinates
- 50.85791, -3.88697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century and was modernized in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with the rear exposed. The cottage features a cob or stone rubble stack topped with 20th-century brick and has a thatched roof. It has a two-room plan and faces south, with a stack at the right (east) end. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window front, with three-light casements on either side and a two-light casement on the first floor, all of which are now 20th-century casements without glazing bars. There is a central 20th-century door with a contemporary gabled porch that has a slate roof. The roof is gable-ended. The rear wall is mostly blind, except for a small larder window at the left end and a central 20th-century buttress. The interior has plain carpentry details where exposed, though the roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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