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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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