Richmond Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Richmond Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-steel-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Richmond Cottage, A3072, Bow, EX17 6HD
- OS grid reference
- SS 722 017
- Coordinates
- 50.80083, -3.81426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Richmond Cottage is a mid-17th century cottage located in Bow. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with a cob stack topped with 20th-century brick, and has a thatched roof.
The house is originally a two-room plan, facing north, with a roughly central passage running through. The larger, western room is heated by a stack shared with the adjacent Hillside property. A 19th-century service extension was added to the rear of the right room. The facade presents a balanced two-window arrangement with late 19th-century casement windows; a two-light window is on the left, and a three-light window on the right. A contemporary four-panel door is located slightly left of centre, leading to the passage. The roof is gable-ended on the left and continuous with Hillside on the right.
The larger right room contains a cob fireplace, now lined with stone and featuring a replacement timber lintel. There are seats on either side of the fireplace, and a large opening on the left side, which likely led to a now-demolished oven or smoking chamber. A crossbeam is stop-chamfered with unusual scroll-nick stops. The roof structure consists of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.
Local climate
Richmond 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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