Steps Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1978. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Steps Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Steps Cottage, 8, Leechwell Street, Totnes, TQ9 5SY
- OS grid reference
- SX 799 601
- Coordinates
- 50.42934, -3.69138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Steps Cottage is an earlier 18th-century cottage with a later addition at the rear, and subsequent alterations. It is a two-storey building with an irregular arrangement of one window. The roof is hipped and gabled, covered with Welsh slate. The exterior is primarily Devonian limestone in a random rubble pattern, with brick additions and a slate-hung first floor. The stacks are old and rendered. The first floor has a three-light bay window with casements. The ground floor has small casements with wooden lintels and leaded lights. Other windows on the north and south sides are two-light mullioned casements with leaded lights. The entrance has a small hood and a boarded door, accessed by a flight of steps from the road, which includes a wrought iron handrail.
Local climate
Steps Cottage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- 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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