Ferry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Ferry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-wicket-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ferry Cottage, Greenway Road, Kingswear, TQ5 0ES
- OS grid reference
- SX 869 548
- Coordinates
- 50.38224, -3.59109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ferry Cottage is an early to mid-19th century cottage situated on the creekside of the River Dart. Built of stone rubble, it has a thatched roof with gabled ends and eyebrow eaves. The cottage is one storey high with an attic. It has a three-window range, featuring two-light casement windows with glazing bars. First-floor windows are set into the eaves and have triangular heads within the thatch, incorporating diamond and triangular lights. A gabled thatched porch is centrally located. Stone chimney stacks are present at the gable ends, featuring set-offs and octagonal flues with moulded caps. The cottage is in a picturesque style.
Local climate
Ferry 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 — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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