Cove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. House.

Cove Cottage

WRENN ID
weathered-groin-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1986
Type
House
Address
Cove Cottage, Colebrooke
OS grid reference
SS 772 010
Coordinates
50.79605, -3.74374
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cove Cottage is a house that likely dates from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is constructed from plastered cob on rubble footings, with a stone rubble stack topped with 19th-century brick and a slate roof. The cottage has a two-room plan and faces west, featuring an entrance hall and stairs at the left (north) end, with a stack in the right (south) end party wall. It is situated between Corner Corrage and Coleford Gospel Hall.

The cottage is two storeys high and has a balanced but not symmetrical front with two windows. The first floor includes two 16-pane sash windows, one of which on the right is a horned replacement, while the ground floor has a single 12-pane sash window in between. At the left end, there is a 19th-century plank door with a small window, along with late 19th-century railings and a gate that features alternating spear and fleur-de-lys finials. The rear elevation has one 19th-century 20-pane sash window, while the rest are 20th-century casements. The low-pitched roof extends continuously with the adjoining Gospel Hall.

Inside, there is little exposed carpentry, but there is a large stone rubble fireplace, now lined with brickette tile, that has a soffit-chamfered oak lintel. The roof has not been inspected. Cove Cottage is included for its group value, and Coleford is noted as a remarkably unspoilt and picturesque hamlet.

Local climate

Cove Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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