Wreylands Cottage Including Front Garden Railings to South is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Wreylands Cottage Including Front Garden Railings to South

WRENN ID
former-lead-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Wreylands Cottage Including Front Garden Railings to South, Cheriton Fitzpaine, EX17 4JH
OS grid reference
SS 869 062
Coordinates
50.84458, -3.60649
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wreylands Cottage is a 16th-century cottage with 17th-century alterations, originally part of a larger house. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick and a thatched roof. The cottage now consists of two rooms, occupying the former hall and inner room of the original 16th-century three-room-and-through-passage house, which faced south. The original hall was to the west and the inner room to the east. A rear lateral stack is present in the inner room, with a left-end stack originally serving the hall. A newel stair turret projects to the rear of the hall, extending into a small, later addition. The cottage has two storeys and a roughly irregular three-window front featuring late 19th and early 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. A 20th-century porch with a hipped thatched roof covers the front door on the left end.

The interior contains a 16th-century oak plank-and-muntin screen, with chamfered and roll-stopped muntins and a blocked flat-arched door. The hall features a chamfered crossbeam without stops, and close to the screen, a late 16th to early 17th-century half beam, chamfered with pyramidal stops, which is believed to support a first-floor crosswall on a small internal jetty. The hall fireplace is blocked. The inner room likely has an 18th-century fireplace with a plain oak lintel, and a probably 16th-century chamfered crossbeam. The roof is inaccessible, but timbers visible on the first-floor crosswall suggest the original roof structure remains. The front garden is enclosed by late 19th-century cast iron railings with ornate spear tops and a matching gate.

Local climate

Wreylands Cottage Including Front Garden Railings to South receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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