Ivy Cottage Walters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Cottage.

Ivy Cottage Walters Cottage

WRENN ID
forbidden-thatch-sorrel
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
Ivy Cottage Walters Cottage, Westleigh
OS grid reference
SS 471 284
Coordinates
51.03542, -4.18103
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ivy Cottage and Walters Cottage are two adjoining cottages, likely built in the 17th century and extended in the 19th century. They are constructed from rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a slate roof featuring gable ends. The left end has a stone rubble stack with a tapered cap drip and a conical slate roof over a corbelled bread oven, while the right end has a similar stone rubble stack with a tapered cap. The main range is oriented gable end to the road.

Walters Cottage, located at the left end, has a 1½ room plan with a direct entry to a larger room that includes a winder staircase in the rear right corner. Ivy Cottage has a 2 room plan and features a 19th-century gable-ended wing that projects at right angles to the main range, creating an overall T-shape in plan. The cottages are two storeys tall and exhibit asymmetrical fenestration primarily from the 19th century.

Ivy Cottage, facing the roadside, has two 6-pane per light, 2-light casement windows on each floor to the left of the stack at the right gable end. Above a similar casement to the left of the plank door to the 19th-century wing, there are two 8-pane per light, 2-light casements. To the right of the doorway, there is another 2-light casement with 8 panes per light on the return wall of the main range. The interior of Walters Cottage was the only part inspected; although the roofspace was not accessible, the presence of heavy principal beams suggests that the original roof structure is likely intact.

Local climate

Ivy Cottage Walters 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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