Church Green Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Church Green Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-tracery-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Green Cottage, Bickleigh, EX16 8RB
- OS grid reference
- SS 942 071
- Coordinates
- 50.85412, -3.50434
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Green Cottage is a house that dates from the 18th century or earlier. It is constructed of colourwashed and rendered materials, likely cob and stone, and features a thatched roof with a plain ridge, gabled at the right end. The cottage is attached to Winterstoke Cottage on the left side. There is a brick chimney stack at the right end and a rear lateral stack for a wing, although the shaft of this stack has been dismantled.
The layout of the interior has not been inspected, so the specific details of the plan are unclear. The house is arranged in an L shape, with the main range facing south. It is single depth and probably consists of two rooms wide, with an entrance located on the front to the left. A single depth rear right wing extends at right angles to the main range, featuring a doorway on the left side and appearing to have been heated by the rear lateral stack. This wing is currently used for storage and may pre-date the main range. The house is situated adjacent to the churchyard, where the ground level aligns with the eaves of the thatch.
The cottage has two storeys and an asymmetrical three-window south front. To the left, there is a plank front door with a gabled porch canopy. The ground floor window to the right of the door is a two-light casement with two panes per light, while the window further right is a one-light casement, also with two panes per light. On the first floor, the windows in the centre and to the right are two-light casements with three panes per light, and the left window is a two-light casement featuring lapped glass.
On the east elevation of the wing, there are buttresses, a wide plank door to the left, and an 18th-century two-light casement window with square leaded panes to the right. There is also one first-floor two-light casement window with three panes per light.
Although the interior has not been inspected, it is reported to have early carpentry. The exterior of the building remains charmingly unspoiled, suggesting that there may be interesting features preserved inside.
Local climate
Church Green Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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