Ferry Cottage Orestone Steps is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1974. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Ferry Cottage Orestone Steps
- WRENN ID
- ghost-pediment-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ferry Cottage Orestone Steps, Salcombe, TQ8 8JE
- OS grid reference
- SX 741 388
- Coordinates
- 50.23616, -3.76657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ferry Cottage at Orestone Steps dates to the early 18th century, with a suggested construction date of 1739. It is a two-storey building, featuring near-flush frame sash windows with glazing bars on both floors. The front of the cottage has a four-panel door. Shaped brackets remain indicating a hood over the left cottage, while a flat hood supported by iron brackets is present over the right cottage, which is painted a plaster colour. The building is constructed of stone and has been painted. Ferry Cottage is part of a group of buildings that includes The Ferry Inn, the Old Watch House, and numbers 39 to 41, and Little End, Fore Street.
Local climate
Ferry Cottage Orestone Steps sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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