Quince Cottage and Attached Cottage to Left is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. Pair of cottages.

Quince Cottage and Attached Cottage to Left

WRENN ID
ruined-step-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1987
Type
Pair of cottages
Address
Quince Cottage and Attached Cottage to Left, Meshaw
OS grid reference
SS 759 196
Coordinates
50.96267, -3.76796
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Quince Cottage and the attached cottage to the left are a pair of cottages, likely built in the early 18th century. They are constructed from rubble and cob, rendered and colour-washed, with axial stacks featuring brick shafts and a wheat straw-thatched roof with gable ends. The layout includes a direct entry into a hall with an axial stack to the right in each dwelling, and a small service room to the left. This configuration results in the right cottage having its stack on the gable end, while the left cottage has its stack in the center of the building. There is an outshut at the rear with a lean-to roof that was added in the 19th century.

The exterior is two storeys high with a 2:2 window arrangement, featuring casements with glazing bars, although the windows on the left are from the 20th century. The door openings are in added 20th-century gabled porches with 20th-century doors. Inside Quince Cottage, there is a hall with a chamfered and unstopped axial ceiling beam, and a fireplace with stone jambs and an unchamfered wooden bressumer, which has been altered in the late 20th century. The staircase to the first floor rises from the service room in a straight flight. The roof is completely ceiled in but is believed to date back to the early 18th century.

Local climate

Quince Cottage and Attached Cottage to Left sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 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 79% 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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