Berry Cottage 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.
Berry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-bracket-gilt
- 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
- Berry Cottage, the Quay, Dittisham, TQ6 0EZ
- OS grid reference
- SX 866 548
- Coordinates
- 50.3826, -3.59604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Berry Cottage is a cottage dating from around the mid-19th century, likely remodelled from a late 17th-century structure which may have originally been part of a larger house. The walls are plastered stone rubble, topped with a clay tile roof with a gable at one end. A limestone rubble stack with a tall rendered shaft is situated at the right-hand gable.
The original layout featured a single room heated by a stack at the right-hand gable, with a doorway at the front left, providing direct entry, and a staircase in the rear left corner. There appears to have been a small outbuilding at the back, and the cottage might have been part of a larger dwelling.
The east-facing front has an asymmetrical design with a single window. The first floor has a 20th-century 2-light casement window. The ground floor features a 20th-century canted bay window with casements and a scantle slate hipped roof. A 20th-century door with divided planks is set within a 20th-century gabled and glazed open-fronted porch on the left. The rear elevation was not inspected.
Inside, the cottage retains a chamfered axial beam with ogee stops. A large fireplace is on the right-hand side, concealing a lintel.
Local climate
Berry Cottage 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 — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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