Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Rock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-hearth-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rock Cottage, Riverside Road West, Newton and Noss, PL8 1AD
- OS grid reference
- SX 547 479
- Coordinates
- 50.31349, -4.04084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Cottage is a cottage that is part of a row of cottages, dating from around the 17th century. It is constructed of whitewashed stone rubble, with the southwest wing being roughcast. The cottage features a slate roof with gabled and half-hipped ends and stands two storeys tall. It has a three-window range, with a projecting gabled wing to the left (southwest) that includes hood moulds over the windows and a large external stone rubble chimney stack at the angle. To the right of the chimney stack is a 20th-century glazed door. The ground floor has larger 20th-century casements with leaded panes, while the upper floor features 19th-century casements with glazing bars.
Local climate
Rock Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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