Thatch Cottage and Leol Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1988. Cottage.
Thatch Cottage and Leol Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-chapel-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thatch Cottage and Leol Cottage, East Street, Chittlehampton, EX37 9QJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 638 255
- Coordinates
- 51.01295, -3.94233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatch Cottage and Leol Cottage are two adjoining cottages dating from the late 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. They are constructed from rendered stone rubble and cob, featuring brick dressings on Thatch Cottage. Both cottages have thatched roofs with gable ends. Thatch Cottage has a brick ridge stack and a brick stack at the left gable end, which includes a projection for a bread oven at the front, as well as a lateral brick stack at the rear right end.
The interiors have been significantly altered in the 20th century. Leol Cottage, which is on the left, now has a direct entry into a single principal room and a 20th-century staircase located in the front right-hand corner. Thatch Cottage, on the right, consists of two rooms, with the room on the right heated by a rear lateral stack. It has a central entrance lobby with a staircase at the rear, which is accessible from the left-hand room.
Both cottages are two storeys high. Leol Cottage features a two-window range, with a 20th-century window and a small two-light casement window, each with four panes per light, illuminating the staircase to the right. There is also a single light window to the left of a shallow lean-to porch with a plank inner door. Thatch Cottage has brick surrounds on its principal windows and also features a two-window range, with all windows being two-light casements with two panes per light. The right-hand upper storey window has been replaced in the late 20th century. Additionally, there is a 20th-century thatched gabled canopy over a 19th-century six-panelled door. The roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
Thatch Cottage and Leol Cottage receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
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