Steps Cottages 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.
Steps Cottages
- WRENN ID
- former-facade-summer
- 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
- Steps Cottages, 1 and 2, Old Road, Harberton, TQ9 7TE
- OS grid reference
- SX 784 562
- Coordinates
- 50.39378, -3.71135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Steps Cottages is a row of four millworkers' cottages that have been converted into two dwellings, dating from the early 19th century. The cottages are constructed from rendered stone rubble and feature an asbestos slate roof with hipped ends. The right end has a slightly higher ridge, and there are three large stone rubble and rendered lateral stacks at the rear. The overall plan is rectangular and single depth, with each cottage originally having either one or two rooms heated by fireplaces at the back.
The exterior is three storeys high and has an approximately six-window range. The fenestration is not quite symmetrical, featuring 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars and small panes, along with small square windows on the second floor, all having slate cills. There is a 20th-century plank door to the left and a 20th-century panelled door to the right, with the doorways in between having been blocked. The interior has not been inspected. These cottages were built for workers at the nearby woollen mills on Woodland Road in Harbertonford.
Local climate
Steps Cottages 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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