Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Cottage.
Rock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-quoin-tallow
- 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
- Rock Cottage, Atherington
- OS grid reference
- SS 572 224
- Coordinates
- 50.98327, -4.03542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Cottage is a small cottage, likely built in the early 19th century. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a thatch roof that has a half-hipped design at the right end. There is a brick chimney stack at the left gable end. The cottage probably originally had a two-room central entrance plan, with a heated room on the left side, but the internal ground floor partitions were removed in the 20th century. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range. The windows are from the 20th century, with deep reveals on the upper floor. There is a slated canopy over the 20th-century porch, and a lean-to with a slate roof at the right end. There are no rear outshuts, and the interior has been altered.
Local climate
Rock 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 transaction since 2016
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