Bay Cottage Including Front Garden Wall to East is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. Cottage.

Bay Cottage Including Front Garden Wall to East

WRENN ID
calm-garret-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1993
Type
Cottage
Address
Bay Cottage Including Front Garden Wall to East, Manor Street, Dittisham
OS grid reference
SX 866 547
Coordinates
50.38203, -3.59603
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bay Cottage, likely built in the 18th century, is a cottage made of painted stone rubble with an asbestos slate roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end, adjoining Holly House. The cottage has a two-room layout with a through passage. The right room is heated by a gable end stack, while the larger left room is heated by a rear lateral stack. A 20th-century winder staircase rises from the back of the left room. In the 19th century, a small single-storey outbuilding was added to the rear of the left end.

The exterior features two storeys and an asymmetrical three-window front facing east. The left-hand first-floor window is blocked, while the ground floor has a 20th-century two-light casement with glazing bars and a timber lintel above the right window. The central doorway has a 20th-century panelled door and a gabled porch. The left end has 20th-century casements, and at the rear, there is a central plank door and a 19th-century single-storey outbuilding to the right.

The front garden is enclosed by a wall, probably dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, made of local limestone and slate rubble with a slate capping. This retaining wall is higher at the left end, where the road slopes steeply down to the River Dart, and lower at the right end, which features a gateway and a conduit head in a brick surround.

Inside, some 19th-century joinery remains, including plank doors. The fireplace in the right gable end has been blocked, and the lintel of the rear lateral fireplace in the left room has been replaced. The roof includes late 19th-century or early 20th-century pegged softwood trusses.

Local climate

Bay Cottage Including Front Garden Wall to East receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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 0.2°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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