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
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.
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