Manor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1975. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Manor Cottage

WRENN ID
guardian-balcony-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1975
Type
Cottage
Address
Manor Cottage, 68a, Fore Street, Totnes, TQ9 5RU
OS grid reference
SX 803 603
Coordinates
50.43109, -3.68662
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Cottage is probably of 16th-century origin. It is constructed of rubble with a pitched and sprocketed roof, now covered with asbestos tiles to the west and corrugated asbestos to the east. The chimney has a rubble plinth and red brick stacks. The cottage is two storeys high. The east side features three ranges of casement windows; all are modern, except for a 18th-century mullion and transom window on the ground floor to the north, which was originally taken from a house on the moors. A range of modern casements is located on the south end. The south gable end is weather-boarded. Inside, two ground-floor rooms are separated by a fireplace with a staircase on its west side and a passage on its east. A granite monolith, chamfered with plain stops, is located at the end of a partition. The north room formerly had a late 16th-century plaster ceiling, and the south room previously contained a diagonally placed fireplace in the south-west corner, presumed to be from the 18th century. There are also some roughly chamfered ceiling beams.

Local climate

Manor 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 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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