Lower Yeatson Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. Cottage.

Lower Yeatson Cottage

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1993
Type
Cottage
Address
Lower Yeatson Cottage, Ashprington
OS grid reference
SX 811 564
Coordinates
50.39627, -3.67416
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Yeatson Cottage is a pair of attached cottages that were converted into one house around 1830. The building is constructed from local stone rubble, which includes bluestone and shale, with local limestone window arches. The ground storey has been colourwashed, and it features a scantle slate roof with gable ends and deep eaves. There are projecting stone rubble gable end stacks with short brick shafts.

The plan consists of a single depth pair of attached one-room plan cottages, with a pair of doorways at the centre of the front leading to staircases against the party wall. The cottages are built into a high bank at the rear, where the ground is at about first floor level. In the 20th century, they were converted into one house; the left-hand doorway was blocked, and the left-hand staircase was removed to enlarge the left-hand room.

The exterior has three storeys and a symmetrical three-bay front, with the centre windows being blind. All the windows feature tent-shaped pointed arches made of dressed limestone and 2-light casements with Y-bars, although the glazing bars or leading are missing. There are a pair of central doorways (with the left-hand doorway blocked) under a hipped slated canopy on shaped brackets. The right-hand door is from the 20th century, and the left-hand doorway has a casement inserted. At the back, two doorways lead into the first-floor left-hand room and the room above, both under a later outshut.

Inside, only the simple boxed-in straight staircase of the right-hand cottage was seen, and it remains intact.

Local climate

Lower Yeatson Cottage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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