Brayleys and Glen Haven is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1975. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Brayleys and Glen Haven
- WRENN ID
- gilded-portal-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brayleys and Glen Haven, Leigh Road, Chulmleigh, EX18 7BL
- OS grid reference
- SS 686 142
- Coordinates
- 50.91294, -3.86978
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two adjoining cottages, probably originally a single dwelling, were built in the early to mid-17th century, with later alterations. They are constructed of painted rendered stone rubble and cob, with thatched roofs featuring a plain ridge and gable ends. A hipped thatched roof covers a short rear wing at the right end. There is a brick stack at the right end, along with two rear lateral stacks: one of stone rubble with a tapered cap, and the other having a brick shaft.
The left-hand cottage (Brayleys) likely had rooms on either side of a central staircase. The left-hand room is heated by a rear lateral stack of stone rubble, while the right-hand room has a fireplace in the rear right-hand corner. The second cottage (Glen Haven) originally comprised two rooms but has been altered to feature a single large room with a direct entry, heated by the gable end fireplace. A short kitchen wing was added to the rear right end, likely in the early 19th century, with a further extension built in the late 20th century. There is also an early 20th-century, two-storey outshut to the rear of Brayleys at the left end.
Internal alterations and subdivision have obscured the original layout. It is possible that the lateral brick stack replaced a stone rubble stack, suggesting a potential original design of three rooms and a cross-passage, with a lower end to the left of the former passage and a hall to the right. The hall would have been heated by rear lateral stacks, and the inner room by the gable end stack. Inside Glen Haven, there are two chamfered cross ceiling beams with prism and scroll stops. A chamfered fireplace lintel with a deep recess to the left may have originally been a smoking chamber. Brayleys also has deep chamfered cross ceiling beams in each room, and a scroll-stopped chamfered fireplace lintel in the left-hand room. The roof structure is believed to be largely intact from the 17th century, with straight principals visible beneath the thatch.
Local climate
Brayleys and Glen Haven 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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