Retreat Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1991. House. 2 related planning applications.
Retreat Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-hearth-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- Retreat Cottage, 34, Buckley Street, Salcombe, TQ8 8DD
- OS grid reference
- SX 740 391
- Coordinates
- 50.23899, -3.76718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Retreat Cottage is a small house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and features a gabled slate roof with a brick end stack. The building has a double-depth plan that is one room wide, standing two storeys tall with a one-window range. The ground floor includes a 19th-century four-panelled beaded door, which is set in a beaded architrave to the left, and 8/8-pane sash windows with moulded architraves and original shutters. The cyma-moulded gutter is supported by lions' mask brackets. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is noted to have plank doors and a boxed quarter-turn stair.
Local climate
Retreat Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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