Sunny Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1988. Cottage.

Sunny Cottage

WRENN ID
seventh-quoin-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Sunny Cottage, East Street, Chulmleigh
OS grid reference
SS 687 142
Coordinates
50.91272, -3.86806
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sunny Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 18th century or early 19th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, with the right end wall rebuilt in brick. It features a thatched roof, which is hipped at the right end, and has a stone rubble stack at the left end.

The layout consists of two rooms with a central passage, where the left-hand room is heated. A straight run staircase from the 20th century leads to the rear of the right-hand room; the original staircase was located in the rear left-hand corner of the left-hand room. There is also a single-storey kitchen extension added to the rear of the left-hand room. The roof structure and the continuation of the rear cob wall to the right of the rebuilt end wall suggest that the cottage may have originally extended to the right, although it could also relate to a separate occupation.

The exterior is two storeys high with a two-window range. The windows are all late 19th century or early 20th century three-light casements, with three panes per light, except for the right-hand window on the ground floor, which was replaced in the 20th century. The cottage has a thatched porch and a doorway that was added in the 20th century.

The interior has been entirely altered in the 20th century, but it likely features a roof structure from the 18th or early 19th century, characterized by straight principals of light scantling and pegged lapped collars.

Local climate

Sunny Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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