Pilgrim 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.

Pilgrim Cottage

WRENN ID
young-lintel-raven
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
Pilgrim Cottage, Polson Hill, Morchard Bishop, EX17 6SD
OS grid reference
SS 769 072
Coordinates
50.85127, -3.74916
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pilgrim Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage, modernised in the 20th century. The walls are plastered cob on rubble footings, with a rubble stack and a 20th-century brick chimney shaft, and the roof is thatched. It is a 2-room cottage facing east, with a larger, heated room to the left (south), and a 20th-century extension at the left end. The front facade has two windows on the upper storey and two windows on the ground floor, the upper storey windows being late 19th-century casements with glazing bars, and the ground floor right window a 20th-century replacement. The original central doorway has been blocked, and its 6-panel door is now used between the 20th-century extension and the main house. Inside, there is plain carpentry detail, including an unfinished crossbeam in the main room. A fireplace is blocked, but the projection of an oven is visible at the rear.

Local climate

Pilgrim 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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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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