Down Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Down Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-gargoyle-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Down Cottage, East Worlington, EX17 4TT
- OS grid reference
- SS 770 134
- Coordinates
- 50.90725, -3.75076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Down Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the 18th century. It is built of rubble and cob, with roughcast rendering, and has a tall roughcast chimney shaft and a steeply-pitched straw-thatched roof with gable ends. The building originally comprised two rooms; an unheated room to the left and a heated room to the right, with a rear corner fireplace and bread oven. The two-storey front has an asymmetrical two-window arrangement, featuring 20th-century casement windows with close-set glazing bars. A plank door is located to the left of centre. Inside the right-hand ground floor room is a chamfered ceiling beam and a fireplace with a low wooden bressumer. A straight-flight staircase leads to a central lobby.
Local climate
Down Cottage receives an average of 950 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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