Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Cottage.
Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-niche-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fern Cottage, Atherington
- OS grid reference
- SS 591 230
- Coordinates
- 50.98959, -4.00875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed from painted roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob. It features a thatch roof with brick stacks at the gable ends. The building has a symmetrical two-room central entrance plan and stands two storeys tall, with a range of three windows. The windows are of 20th-century design. The roof is slated and has a gabled shape, complemented by a carved bargeboard on the brick porch. This cottage is included for its group value context.
Local climate
Fern Cottage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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