May Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. House.

May Cottage

WRENN ID
lunar-porch-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
House
Address
May Cottage, Thurlestone
OS grid reference
SX 675 436
Coordinates
50.27748, -3.85995
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

May Cottage is a house from the 17th century, likely altered in the 20th century. It has rendered rubble walls that may include some cob and a thatched roof that is gabled at the left end and hipped at the right. There is a projecting rendered rubble stack with a brick shaft at the left gable end, and a similar stack that does not project at the right end. The original layout was a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end likely on the right. The hall was heated by a front lateral stack that is now blocked off. A 19th-century outshut has been added in front of the left-hand room.

The exterior features two storeys and has an asymmetrical front with one window on the upper floor and four windows on the ground floor, which are 20th-century small-paned one and two-light casements. There is a 20th-century gabled porch to the right of the centre with a glazed door. In front of the left-hand end is the 19th-century outshut, and to its right is the truncated projecting lateral stack. The interior was inaccessible during the survey but may contain original features such as ceiling beams and fireplaces.

Local climate

May 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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