Cannington Cottage and Forecourt Railings is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. House.
Cannington Cottage and Forecourt Railings
- WRENN ID
- little-grate-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cannington Cottage and Forecourt Railings, 1, West Street, Witheridge
- OS grid reference
- SS 804 144
- Coordinates
- 50.91715, -3.70192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cannington Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century. It likely has a stone core and features roughcast and colourwashed walls, topped with a Welsh slate gabled roof and an end roughcast stack. The building has an L-shaped plan with a wing on the left side at the rear and a central stair hall flanked by rooms.
Architecturally, it is designed in the Regency style and stands two storeys tall with a symmetrical facade that originally featured three windows, each with 16-pane sashes and exposed sash boxes. The central door opening is adorned with a wooden doorcase, and it contains an original six-panelled door with a transom light above. At the rear, there are French windows with coloured glass.
Inside, the cottage retains early 19th-century joinery, including a staircase with a turned newel and stick balusters, window shutters, doors, and architraves. There is a large kitchen fireplace in the rear wing, while the fireplaces in two principal ground floor rooms were replaced around 1940. The property also features a railed forecourt with a gate that matches the style of the house.
Local climate
Cannington Cottage and Forecourt Railings 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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