Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1988. A C18 Cottage.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
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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
Church Cottage, Burrington
OS grid reference
SS 637 167
Coordinates
50.93366, -3.93977
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the early 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed from roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a thatched roof featuring gable end brick stacks. There is also a hipped thatch roof on a former outbuilding attached to the left end of the cottage.

The layout includes a principal room on each side of a wide stairhall. The left-hand room has a small pantry or scullery situated between it and the staircase. In the late 19th or early 20th century, the right-hand room was partitioned to create two smaller rooms, suggesting that the house may have been divided into two separate living spaces at that time. The former lofted outbuilding on the left end was converted to become part of the dwelling in the 20th century.

The cottage is two storeys high and has a three-window range. On the left end, there are 19th-century three-light casement windows with three panes per light on both floors. Above a 20th-century plank door, there is a two-light casement window with three panes per light. At the right end, there is a 19th-century three-light casement window with six panes per light above a single-light window that was inserted in a blocked doorway, along with another three-light window to the right. The outbuilding on the left end has a window inserted in the loft door opening above the plank door.

Inside, the left-hand room features a chamfered cross ceiling beam. There are 19th-century panelled doors leading to an integral cupboard to the right of the stairs. The fireplace at the right end includes a bread oven with a cast iron oven door marked "Young and Son." There are also fragments of weathered gravestones set in the hearth and behind it, one of which has an inscribed Roman numeral IV. The 19th-century joinery throughout the cottage is mostly intact.

Local climate

Church Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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