Grantlands Cottage and Brook Villa is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. House.
Grantlands Cottage and Brook Villa
- WRENN ID
- odd-foundation-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grantlands Cottage and Brook Villa, A3072, Bow
- OS grid reference
- SS 719 017
- Coordinates
- 50.80154, -3.81881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grantlands Cottage and Brook Villa are two houses likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century. They are constructed from plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped by 20th-century bricks and a thatched roof.
The two adjoining cottages each have a two-room layout and face south, featuring central entrance lobbies. Grantlands Cottage is on the left (west) and has a projecting left end stack, while Brook Villa is on the right (east) and has a rear lateral stack serving its right room. The White Hart Hotel is located adjacent to the right end of Brook Villa. Notably, Grantlands Cottage has a flying freehold first-floor room above the ground floor room of Brook Villa. Both houses are two storeys high and present a regular five-window front, featuring a mix of late 19th-century and 20th-century casements, most of which have glazing bars. The front doors are from the 20th century. The roof is continuous, with a slight drop in the ridge and eaves between the two houses, and it is hipped to the left. The left end stack has been rebuilt using 20th-century brick quoins, and the rear left corner of the building is canted.
Inside, the cottages reveal plain carpentry details where visible. The left room of Grantlands Cottage features an unstopped chamfered crossbeam, while the left room of Brook Villa has a similar axial beam. The roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
Grantlands Cottage and Brook Villa 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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