Woodsmoke Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Woodsmoke Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-lead-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Woodsmoke Cottage, Willand, EX15 2RD
- OS grid reference
- ST 038 104
- Coordinates
- 50.88517, -3.36883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodsmoke Cottage is a detached cottage, formerly known as Denis's Farmhouse. It likely dates from the early 16th century and has undergone later extensions and alterations. The building features plastered cob with stone footings, and the rear wall has been rebuilt in brick. It has a gabled-end thatched roof and is designed as a 3-room, cross-passage house with 19th and 20th-century extensions on both sides. The cottage is 1 and a half storeys tall.
The front of the old cottage has a two-window range, with upper two-light windows positioned under eyebrow eaves. There is a porch with a catslide roof that is glazed, and it has two and three-light windows on either side, with the latter featuring a 19th-century casement. The right-hand extension includes a 20th-century three-light window and a lean-to conservatory at the end. On the rear, an upright support of jointed cruck is visible in the rebuilt wall. The interior has not been inspected, but the occupier believes the roof to be smoke-blackened.
Local climate
Woodsmoke Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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