The Nook is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Nook
- WRENN ID
- dusted-frieze-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Nook, Lower Street, Dittisham, TQ6 0HY
- OS grid reference
- SX 860 551
- Coordinates
- 50.38495, -3.60438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nook is a cottage, likely dating from the 17th or early 18th century. It is built of rendered stone rubble, possibly with some cob, and has an asbestos slate roof with gabled ends and red clay ridge tiles. A stack at the left-hand gable end has a tapered rendered shaft with slate weathering. Originally, the cottage had a single-room plan with a doorway on the right of the front and a heating source from the stack at the left end.
The front of the cottage is asymmetrical, with two windows on the first floor, each featuring 2 lights and glazing bars. Below, a larger 3-light casement sits on the left, and a doorway with a 19th-century plank door and a slated lean-to canopy projecting from wooden cantilevers is positioned to the right. A copper insurance plaque, inscribed "West of England Exeter," is located centrally on the first floor. The rear elevation has not been inspected.
Inside, closely-spaced chamfered cross-beams are visible, their stops concealed by wallpaper. The fireplace on the left end has a chamfered timber lintel. Beside the stack is a winder staircase. A chamfered wooden frame surrounds a blocked opening in the rear wall. The first-floor roof structure was not inspected.
Local climate
The Nook receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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 0.2°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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- 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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