Riverton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. House.

Riverton Cottage

WRENN ID
crooked-corbel-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1986
Type
House
Address
Riverton Cottage, Yeoland Lane, Swimbridge
OS grid reference
SS 639 301
Coordinates
51.05465, -3.94216
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Riverton Cottage is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building features painted rendered stone and cob, topped with a half-hipped thatch roof. At the rear, there are two tall lateral stacks with offsets, bread oven projections, and brick shafts. The original layout has been obscured due to the conversion of the house into two cottages, before being returned to a single dwelling.

The cottage is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical facade with a five-window range, which includes eyebrow dormers. The windows are 19th and 20th century two-light casements, with two panes per light. The ground floor windows are fitted with timber lintels. A hipped thatch roof covers the central porch, and there is a 20th-century lean-to extension at the right end. Inside, there are single crossed ovolo-moulded beams in the room to the left of the entrance.

Local climate

Riverton Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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