Aylescombe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. Cottage.
Aylescombe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-finial-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Aylescombe Cottage, Brixton
- OS grid reference
- SX 543 521
- Coordinates
- 50.35092, -4.04852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Aylescombe Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone rubble and features an asbestos sheet roof with gabled ends. The building has two storeys and a two-window range, with 19th and 20th-century casement windows. To the right of a large stone chimney stack at the front, which has a set off and an oven projection with a slated roof, there is a plank door with a 20th-century hood. At the rear, there is a round stair projection. Inside, the cottage has thin chamfered ceiling beams and newel stairs at the rear, while the front fireplace has been blocked.
Local climate
Aylescombe 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 89% 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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