Coombe Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1990. Cottage.
Coombe Cottages
- WRENN ID
- sunken-hall-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Coombe Cottages, 1 and 2, Bigbury
- OS grid reference
- SX 676 487
- Coordinates
- 50.32336, -3.86099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Coombe Cottages is a former farmhouse, now divided into two cottages, located in Bigbury. It is likely from the 18th century or earlier. The building is constructed of rendered cob or rubble, with exposed rubble at the back and a corrugated asbestos-cement roof. It consists of two sections, with the smaller left half having a slightly shallower roof pitch and a lower gabled wing at the back.
The cottages are two storeys tall with irregular window arrangements. No. 1 features a small two-light casement window on the far left, followed by another similar window beneath a two-light window at the eaves. There is a wide blank section of wall leading to a wide plank door, which is sheltered by a small slated hood and is located beneath a two-light window with glazing bars. No. 2 has a small 19th-century two-light window without bars on the ground floor, alongside a 20th-century casement window flanking a 20th-century gabled porch supported by wooden posts, which leads to a panelled door. On the first floor, there is a two-light window with glazing bars and a 20th-century casement; the right-hand part may be an added section under a hipped roof. A large ridge stack is positioned at the point where the roof pitch changes, on the left side and at the former right gable. The back of the building features a gabled wing at the right end, with various two-light casements and a stair window near the left end.
Local climate
Coombe Cottages 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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