Brecon Cottage and Down View is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1976. House, cottage. 1 related planning application.

Brecon Cottage and Down View

WRENN ID
guardian-baluster-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1976
Type
House, cottage
Address
Brecon Cottage and Down View, Pathdown Lane, Georgeham, EX33 1PL
OS grid reference
SS 451 390
Coordinates
51.13004, -4.2144
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brecon Cottage and Down View is a house that has been converted into two cottages, likely dating from the late 17th century. The building features whitewashed, partly rendered cob and rubble construction, topped with a thatched roof that is half-hipped at both ends. There is a brick stack at the right end, which is a lateral stack with a projecting bread oven on the south side, and it has been heightened in brick. The original layout was probably a two-cell house with a through passage.

The south side of the building has two storeys and includes two 2-light timber casement windows with four panes in each light, situated above an off-centre gabled porch that has a slated roof and a 20th-century door. Between the porch and the stack on the left end, there are two more 2-light timber casements; the one on the left has three panes in each light, while the one on the right has six panes in each light and is inserted into a blocked doorway. To the right of the porch, there are two single-light timber casements, each with four panes. The north side has later outshuts with 19th-century slated roofs.

Local climate

Brecon Cottage and Down View 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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  • Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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