Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Cottage.
Rock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-doorway-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rock Cottage, Westleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 471 285
- Coordinates
- 51.03569, -4.18188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the early 18th century. It is constructed of rendered stone and some cob, topped with a thatched roof featuring gable ends. The building has an axial stone stack with a tapered cap, which has been heightened in brick.
20th-century alterations have obscured the original layout, and the cottage now consists of two rooms divided by the stack, with the entire range being slightly cranked. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has two windows. The windows include two-light casements with six panes per light, and a twelve-paned light at the right end above two two-light casements, which have six panes per light on the left and eight panes per light on the right, all featuring timber lintels. There is a buttress on the right side and two 20th-century doors at the rear. The interior has also been altered in the 20th century, with a single roughly chamfered beam in the room to the right.
Local climate
Rock Cottage receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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