Lake Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1973. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Lake Cottages
- WRENN ID
- crooked-ledge-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lake Cottages, 1-4, Dark Lane, Barnstaple, EX31 1QS
- OS grid reference
- SS 555 341
- Coordinates
- 51.08844, -4.06348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of four cottages dating from the early 19th century, with later 19th-century additions to numbers 2, 3, and 4. The cottages have solid rendered walls and slated roofs. Numbers 2, 3, and 4 each feature two brick chimneys on a rear wall, while number 1 has chimneys on each end wall.
The cottages are arranged as two-storey, two-window ranges, with a doorway to the right of each, except for number 4, which has two ground-floor windows with the doorway positioned between them. Number 1 is set forward and is slightly taller than the others. Doorways at numbers 2 and 4 have flat wood canopies supported by long, curved brackets. The windows are box-framed sashes with six panes. Numbers 2, 3, and 4 have a bracketed eaves cornice. Number 1 has a late 20th-century dormer with small-paned wood casements. The interior was not inspected. The cottages are included on the list for their group value.
Local climate
Lake Cottages 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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 — 4 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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