Chapel Cottage and Alexanders Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Chapel Cottage and Alexanders Cottage

WRENN ID
over-joist-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 February 1990
Type
Cottage
Address
Chapel Cottage and Alexanders Cottage, Frogmore, Frogmore and Sherford, TQ7 2NR
OS grid reference
SX 773 426
Coordinates
50.27097, -3.7229
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chapel Cottage and Alexanders Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from around the mid 17th century, with a 19th-century addition. They feature stone rubble and cob walls that are rendered at the front, topped by a gable-ended thatch roof. The left gable end has a brick stack on a rubble base, while the right end has a rendered brick stack. There are also two rendered rubble projecting rear lateral stacks.

Currently, the cottages are arranged as two 2-room plan units, with Chapel Cottage on the left being larger. It may have originally been a single 3-room-and-through-passage plan house, with Alexanders Cottage occupying the lower end on the right, which has been divided into two rooms and includes a rear lateral stack. Chapel Cottage likely consists of the original hall and an inner room, with the hall heated by a fireplace on the rear wall and a newel stair adjacent. The inner room has a fireplace on the end wall and possibly a blocked newel stair behind it. There is a small 19th-century outshut built behind the center of the house.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-to-two window front. Chapel Cottage features 20th-century two-light casements on the first floor, with the two right-hand windows lacking glazing bars. On the ground floor, there are two large later 20th-century two-light casements to the left and a 19th-century three-light casement to the right. A 20th-century lean-to open-fronted porch is at the right-hand end, with an early 19th-century six-panel door behind it. The left-hand end wall has a semi-circular projection behind the stack. Alexanders Cottage to the right has late 20th-century PVC two-light casements and a gabled porch with a glazed door. The rear elevation features a stair projection at the center with a 19th-century outshut to its left.

Inside, Chapel Cottage has timber newel stairs behind the right-hand room. The beams have been replaced, and the old fireplaces have been altered. The feet of the principals visible on the first floor may be original but appear quite rough.

Local climate

Chapel Cottage and Alexanders 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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