Ambow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Ambow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-cellar-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ambow Cottage, Chittlehampton, EX37 9QB
- OS grid reference
- SS 636 246
- Coordinates
- 51.00543, -3.94451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ambow Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the 18th century, with extensions and alterations made in the 20th century. It is built of painted rendered stone rubble and cob, and has a half-hipped thatched roof. A rendered axial stack is located at the former left end. Originally, the cottage had a two-room plan, with a heated room to the left and a short wing to the rear forming a T-shaped plan. The interior partitions were removed, and a two-storey extension of one-room plan was added to the left end in the 20th century. The cottage has three windows across two storeys. The windows are 20th-century, with two panes per light. A 20th-century porch with a thatched roof is present. Inside, there are chamfered cross ceiling beams in the front right-hand room, one of which has hollow step stops, and is likely a reused feature. The remainder of the interior was altered in the 20th century.
Local climate
Ambow Cottage receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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