Vale Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1965. Cottage.

Vale Cottage

WRENN ID
stark-step-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1965
Type
Cottage
Address
Vale Cottage, Church Road, Georgeham
OS grid reference
SS 464 398
Coordinates
51.13753, -4.19651
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Vale Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located on the north side of Church Road in Georgeham. The building features whitewashed rendered rubble and cob construction, topped with a Norfolk reed thatch roof with gable ends. At the left end, there is a rendered stack with a tapered cap. The cottage is two storeys high and has a symmetrical facade, which includes two sash windows on each floor. The upper windows have two over two panes, while the lower windows have margin glazing bars flanking a stable door that is covered by a slated gabled canopy. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Vale 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Skirr Cottage, Clare Cottage and Verbena Cottage Grade II 17 m
  2. Church of St George Grade I 59 m
  3. Millies Cottage Grade II 67 m
  4. Rosemary Cottage Grade II 88 m
  5. St Georges House Grade II 91 m
  6. Stable Close Grade II 111 m
  7. The Hive Grade II 122 m
  8. Perrymans One Grade II 169 m
  9. Rock Hill Cottage and Sunnyside Grade II 203 m
  10. Rock House Grade II 235 m