West Yeo Moor Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. House pair.

West Yeo Moor Cottages

WRENN ID
shifting-parapet-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1987
Type
House pair
Address
West Yeo Moor Cottages, Witheridge
OS grid reference
SS 789 164
Coordinates
50.93498, -3.72377
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

West Yeo Moor Cottages is a pair of cottages, probably from the 18th century. The front wall is made of coursed local rubble, while the end gable walls are constructed from rubble and cob, and the rear wall is in cob. The cottages have a hipped thatched roof and a tall 19th-century brick stack at one end.

The plan is asymmetrical, with each cottage featuring one main room with a gable end stack and two smaller inner rooms that back onto each other. The exterior is two storeys high with three asymmetrical bays, and the windows are 19th-century casements with horizontal glazing bars. There are two door openings with plank doors in simple wooden frames; the left door has a 20th-century corrugated-iron porch.

Inside, each principal ground floor room has a gable end fireplace with a wooden bressumer. The right room includes a brick-lined bread oven with a cast-iron door, while the left room has a fireplace blocked by a 20th-century stove. Both cottages have a simple boxed-in staircase with a door, and all rooms feature simple plank doors with iron latches. The roof is from the 18th century, with collars pegged to the face of the straight principals.

Local climate

West Yeo Moor Cottages receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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