Chapters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Chapters Cottage

WRENN ID
errant-lantern-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Chapters Cottage, Kennerleigh, EX17 4RS
OS grid reference
SS 819 074
Coordinates
50.85431, -3.67843
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chapters Cottage is a late 17th- to early 18th-century cottage located in Kennerleigh. It is constructed with plastered cob on rubble footings, and has a cob or rubble stack with a plastered brick shaft, topped with a thatched roof. Originally a single-room dwelling, it faces south and has a rear wall backing onto the churchyard. A stack projects from the left (west) end. The cottage is two storeys high, with a two-window front featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars. A door is positioned at the right end. The roof is half-hipped at each end. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Chapters 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 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 3 transactions since 2013
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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