Signpost Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Cottage.

Signpost Cottage

WRENN ID
unlit-finial-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Devon
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Signpost Cottage, Tawstock
OS grid reference
SS 557 269
Coordinates
51.02368, -4.05793
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Signpost Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed from rendered stone and cob, topped with a thatched roof featuring gable ends. The building has two lateral brick stacks at the rear and a two-room layout, with direct entry into the right-hand room and a staircase located on the right side of the left room. A former outbuilding has been converted to become part of the dwelling, positioned at a right angle to the left end and extending to the rear, creating an overall L-shaped plan. The cottage is two storeys high and has a two-window range, with 2-light casements featuring six panes per light on each floor, flanking a plank door that leads to a porch with a thatched roof. There is a 20th-century extension at the rear. The internal joinery from the 19th century remains largely intact, and the roof structure from the 18th century includes waney common rafters and pegged trusses.

Local climate

Signpost Cottage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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