Lake Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Lake Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-gallery-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lake Cottage, Dark Lane, Barnstaple, EX31 1QS
- OS grid reference
- SS 555 341
- Coordinates
- 51.08845, -4.06379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lake Cottage is a late 18th or early 19th century house located on the South West side of Dark Lane, Pilton, Barnstaple. The front and left side walls are of painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern, while the rear portion of the side wall has been rebuilt in stretcher bond. The roof is slated and hipped, with old red brick chimneys at each end wall. The house has two storeys and a three-window front. The window and door openings are topped with segmental arches constructed of gauged brick. The centre doorway features a six-panelled door within a moulded frame, fitted with a brass knocker, letterbox, knob, and keyhole surround. The windows are sashes with eight panes, set in moulded frames that are very slightly recessed. A bracketed eaves cornice runs along the top. No windows are visible on the left side wall when viewed from the lane and adjacent roads. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lake Cottage 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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