Dira Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage.
Dira Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-gravel-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dira Cottage, Sandford
- OS grid reference
- SS 843 046
- Coordinates
- 50.82988, -3.64292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dira Cottage is a Grade II listed building that dates back to the 18th century. Originally two separate cottages, it is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped by 20th-century brick chimney shafts and a thatched roof. The cottage features a pair of adjoining two-room units that face east, away from the road, with continuous outshots at the rear.
The building is two storeys high and has an irregular four-window front, which includes 19th and 20th-century casements, most of which have glazing bars. The right (north) cottage has a symmetrical two-window front with a central door, while the left (south) cottage has a large projecting stack in the centre, with an oven projection to the right. This side also has a window on each floor to the right and a ground floor window only to the left, with the door located at the left end. The roof is half-hipped on the left and hipped on the right. The interior remains unmodernised, showcasing plain carpentry details.
Local climate
Dira Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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