Crabadon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. House. 1 related planning application.
Crabadon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-corner-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crabadon Cottage, Diptford, TQ9 7JZ
- OS grid reference
- SX 753 550
- Coordinates
- 50.38231, -3.75443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crabadon Cottage is a small house, likely dating from the late 18th century. It was originally two cottages. The walls are of painted slate stone rubble, with rendering to the rear and slate hanging to the left, or west, end, including a section on the first floor of the front. The roof is of asbestos slate with gabled ends, and features large, projecting gable end stacks with slate weatherings to the tapered tops. One stack is slate-hung.
The original plan was for a pair of attached cottages, each with one room and heated by gable end stacks. A pair of entrances were originally at the centre of the front, presumably leading to lobbies and stairs against the party wall. The cottages have been converted into a single dwelling, and the left-hand doorway has been blocked.
The south front has a symmetrical three-window arrangement, disrupted only by the blocked doorway to the left of centre. It contains 19th-century two-light casement windows with glazing bars. The first-floor windows have 20th-century replacement casement frames without glazing bars; there is also a single-light centre window with a 20th-century top-hung casement. All windows are in original openings and have slate sills, except for the ground-floor right-hand window, which has a concrete sill. A doorway to the right of centre has a glazed plank door and a 20th-century glazed porch. The rear elevation is largely unaltered and has a single small ground-floor window to the left of centre. A single-storey outbuilding with a corrugated iron gable ended roof is attached to the right-hand end. The interior remains uninspected.
Local climate
Crabadon Cottage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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