Sleepy Thatch, Sunny Thatch, Vine Cottage and No. 4 Vine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Row of cottages. 8 related planning applications.
Sleepy Thatch, Sunny Thatch, Vine Cottage and No. 4 Vine Cottage
- WRENN ID
- graven-niche-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Row of cottages
- Address
- Sleepy Thatch, Sunny Thatch, Vine Cottage and No. 4 Vine Cottage, East Prawle, Chivelstone, TQ7 2BU
- OS grid reference
- SX 780 364
- Coordinates
- 50.21568, -3.71064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of four cottages located in Chivelstone, East Prawle, dating back to the 18th century and altered in the 20th century. The cottages are constructed of slatestone rubble walls with a hipped thatch roof and two axial brick stacks. Originally, they appear to have been built as four single-room cottages, potentially with a narrow service room at the rear. Later additions were built at the rear in the late 19th or 20th century. The cottages were converted into two dwellings during the 20th century, but subsequently reverted to their original four-cottage configuration in the late 20th century.
The cottages present a regular five-window front. Sleepy Thatch, on the left, has metal frame casement windows fitted in the mid-20th century. The other three cottages feature later 20th-century casement windows without glazing bars. All windows have brick arched lintels above. Sleepy Thatch has a 20th-century panelled door on the left side, while Sunny Thatch has a plank door on the right, both sheltered by thatched hoods. Vine Cottage and No. 4 Vine Cottage each have a 20th-century lean-to glazed porch on their left and right sides.
The interiors were inaccessible at the time of survey.
Local climate
Sleepy Thatch, Sunny Thatch, Vine Cottage and No. 4 Vine Cottage 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles 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 — 7 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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