Gooseberry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Cottage.
Gooseberry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eastward-lintel-jackdaw
- 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
- Gooseberry Cottage, Zeal Monachorum
- OS grid reference
- SS 718 040
- Coordinates
- 50.82147, -3.82088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gooseberry Cottage is a cottage from the late 18th century that has been modernised with an extension around 1970. The main part of the house is made of plastered cob and stone rubble, featuring a stone rubble or cob stack with a plastered brick chimney shaft, and a thatched roof, while the extension has a slate roof. Originally, it was a one-room plan cottage facing south with a projecting right (east) end stack. The main house is two storeys tall, and the extension is single storey.
The front of the cottage has three windows, which are casements with glazing bars from around 1970, along with a contemporary door located at the left end. The eaves are notably deep but break back above the windows, creating an eyebrow effect. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped at both ends. The 20th-century extension features two windows with glazing bars and a door adjacent to the main house, with a gable-ended roof.
Inside, the cottage includes a crossbeam with a roughly-chamfered soffit, and the oak lintel of the large rubble fireplace has a similar finish. The roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
Gooseberry 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
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