The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-foundation-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, South Huish, TQ7 3EY
- OS grid reference
- SX 689 404
- Coordinates
- 50.24948, -3.83947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is likely an 18th-century house that has been significantly altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of rendered rubble walls and has a thatched roof, gabled at the right end and half-hipped to the left. At each end of the building are projecting stacks, one of rendered rubble and the other with a brick shaft. The original plan included two rooms, with a two-storey rear outshut that is thought to be a 20th-century addition. The front elevation has a regular two-window arrangement including 20th-century small-paned, two-light casements. A central, open-fronted stone porch with a thatched roof provides access to a 20th-century plank door. The interior was inaccessible for inspection.
Local climate
The Old Cottage 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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