Elm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Elm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- standing-beam-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Elm Cottage, Zeal Monachorum, EX17 6DG
- OS grid reference
- SS 718 040
- Coordinates
- 50.82155, -3.82135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 18th century, with a service outshot added in 1985. It is constructed from plastered cob on rubble footings, with what is probably a cob stack and a plastered brick chimney shaft. The roof is thatched, while the service outshot has a corrugated iron roof.
The cottage has a small two-room plan and faces south. The larger room on the right (eastern) side features a projecting end stack and the service outshot. The main part of the cottage is two storeys high. The nearly symmetrical front has two ground floor casements and one central first floor casement, all of which are 20th century with glazing bars. There is a central 20th century door and a monopitch, plank-roofed porch. The roof is half-hipped on the right side and hipped on the left. The single storey extension has a monopitch roof and two 20th century front casements.
Inside, the cottage has plain carpentry details. The main room includes a neatly soffit-chamfered axial beam without stops and a similar finish on the oak lintel of the large stone rubble fireplace. The roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
Elm Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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