Ridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Ridge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-facade-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ridge Cottage, Braunton, EX33 2ND
- OS grid reference
- SS 492 386
- Coordinates
- 51.1276, -4.15597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ridge Cottage is a house, possibly with origins in the 17th century, though the interior was remodelled in the 20th century. It is constructed of whitewashed rendered cob and rubble with a thatched roof. A rubble stack is located at the left gable end, and another axial rubble stack is present. The house follows a 3-cell cross-passage plan, with the stack backing onto the cross-passage where the staircase is situated. The symmetrical disposition of the windows and overall dimensions suggest it may originally have been built as two adjoining cottages. The house has two storeys and a 4-window range. The left side features a 2-light and a 3-light casement window on each floor. The right side has a 2-light and a 3-light window over a gabled 20th-century porch where the entrance door is located, with an inserted French window to the right.
Local climate
Ridge Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 5 transactions since 1998
- 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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