Priests' Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1960. Cottage.
Priests' Cottages
- WRENN ID
- upper-vestry-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Priests' Cottages, 1 and 2, Main Street, Brixton
- OS grid reference
- SX 553 522
- Coordinates
- 50.35205, -4.0342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Priests' Cottages is a pair of cottages, likely once the parsonage, dating from the 15th or 16th century but largely rebuilt and extended in the early 19th century. They feature a stone rubble construction with a slate roof and gabled ends, standing two storeys tall with a long range of four windows. On the south side, the left-hand (west) end has two-light stone windows from the 15th or 16th century, which have pointed arch lights and cusped arches on the ground floor, both adorned with hood moulds. The remaining windows are 19th or 20th century two-light casements with glazing bars. There are stone rubble chimney stacks at the gable ends. The west end includes a 20th-century extension, and the eaves overhang on the south side. Simple doorways on the north side are accompanied by 20th-century porches.
Local climate
Priests' Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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