Marine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1994. A C19 Detached house. 2 related planning applications.
Marine Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-window-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1994
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Marine Cottage, Back Way, Ilfracombe, EX34 9AA
- OS grid reference
- SS 517 476
- Coordinates
- 51.20878, -4.12359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marine Cottage is an early 19th-century detached house situated in Ilfracombe. It is constructed with roughcast cob and stone walls, and has an asbestos slated roof with red ridge tiles. The building has a rectangular, double-fronted plan, likely only one room deep, and is built with a gable end facing Back Way.
The three-storey front elevation, facing east, is two windows wide, with a long, unwindowed section to the right. It features one window on each storey: the ground and third storeys have sashes with three panes per sash, while the second storey has sashes with two panes. A round-arched doorway is located to the right of the ground floor, alongside a sash window to the left. The rear (north) elevation, facing the sea, has a canted wooden bay window on the second storey with a slated pent roof, featuring eight-paned sashes in the centre and four-paned sashes on the sides. A window with a pointed arch is situated on the third storey. The gable has pierced and shaped bargeboards. The west wall has only two windows – one small window with a single pane of glass and another of two lights with a wooden mullion and transom frame.
The interior retains an original staircase with a column newel and square balusters, as well as six-panel doors with moulded frames. Marine Cottage is one of the better-preserved dwellings from the period on the northern slopes of the town, predating the large-scale developments of the late 19th century. It is depicted on Banfield’s map of the 1830s.
Local climate
Marine Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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 2005
- 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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