Wheelwrights Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Wheelwrights Cottage
- WRENN ID
- floating-foundation-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wheelwrights Cottage, the Square, Witheridge, EX16 8AE
- OS grid reference
- SS 803 144
- Coordinates
- 50.91743, -3.70377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheelwrights Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the west side of The Square in Witheridge. The walls are of cob, which has been rendered and colourwashed. The roof is thatched, with a half-hipped design and a lower section to the left, featuring a projecting brick stack.
The cottage's plan consists of a small lobby with a service room to the right of the entrance, and a larger room to the left containing a large fireplace on the rear wall. The front facade is two storeys high and asymmetrical, with a 1:1 window arrangement. On the left side are two 3-light 19th-century casement windows with horizontal glazing bars. A large, late 18th-century tripartite window is on the right, with flanking pilasters and an overhanging cornice; this window contains a central 16-pane sash and sidelights. The right return side has two bays of 2- and 3-light 19th-century casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, and a central doorway with a plank door. The interior was modernized in the late 20th century, and appears to have no original features.
Local climate
Wheelwrights Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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
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