East Knowle is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1990. Cottage.
East Knowle
- WRENN ID
- unlit-chapel-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- East Knowle, Bigbury
- OS grid reference
- SX 675 489
- Coordinates
- 50.32581, -3.86241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Knowle is a detached cottage located in Bigbury, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building is rendered with a thatched roof and has two storeys featuring three windows with 9 over 12-pane sash designs on the upper floor, which have slight eyebrows above them. There is a 20th-century thatched hood over the door situated between the second and third bays. The roof is hipped, and there is a cropped stack on the left side. A large back wing is present but is not of special interest.
Local climate
East Knowle receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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 0.3°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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