Riverside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1977. A C17/18 Cottage.
Riverside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-flue-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Riverside Cottage, Yealmpton
- OS grid reference
- SX 590 519
- Coordinates
- 50.35097, -3.9821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverside Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th to 18th century, constructed of stone rubble with a thatched roof featuring hipped and gabled ends. The building is L-shaped in plan and has two storeys. The front wing, which is on the west side, is a two-storey range that includes two and three-light casements with glazing bars and wooden lintels. There is a 20th-century thatched porch located to the right of the centre. The cottage has stone chimney stacks at the gable ends. At the rear, there is a lean-to outshut in the angle with the rear wing, which has an end stack with set-offs.
Local climate
Riverside 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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