Frost Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Cottage.

Frost Cottage

WRENN ID
lost-chamber-lake
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
Frost Cottage, Polson Hill, Morchard Bishop
OS grid reference
SS 771 068
Coordinates
50.84797, -3.74709
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Frost Cottage is a mid to late 17th-century cottage that was extended in the mid 20th century. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, a cob stack with a plastered brick chimney shaft, and a thatched roof. The small, gable-ended cottage faces northeast and consists of a small service room on the left (southeast) and a heated room on the right, which is served by a projecting end stack. The building is two storeys high and has a balanced front with two windows, which are late 19th to early 20th century casements with glazing bars. There are also two small inserted first-floor windows above a central door and a gabled porch with a thatched roof.

Inside, the main room features a cross beam that is chamfered with scroll stops at the rear, while the front has runout stops and thickens as it enters the wall with an ogee-moulded frame. The stone fireplace includes an oak lintel with runout stops and a brick oven on the left side. To the right of the fireplace, there is a small cupboard with pivoted fielded panel doors and a shaped shelf. The roof is a three-bay structure with A-frame trusses and pegged lap-jointed collars. The mid-20th century extensions to the right and the studio to the left add to the cottage, which contains surprisingly high-quality details.

Local climate

Frost 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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