Trumps Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.

Trumps Cottage

WRENN ID
iron-mortar-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Teignbridge
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Trumps Cottage, Church Lane, Tedburn St. Mary, EX6 6EN
OS grid reference
SX 805 944
Coordinates
50.73721, -3.69346
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Trumps Cottage is a house with origins dating back to the early 17th century or earlier, with some partial rebuilding likely occurring in the 19th century. It features whitewashed rendered cob and a slate roof that is gabled at both ends, along with a projecting stack at the right gable end and an axial stack. The current layout consists of three rooms wide and single depth, including a rear gabled stair turret and a rear left lean-to. The left-hand end of the house has been rebuilt, making the original plan unclear. The right-hand end contains an early 17th-century room with a rear stair turret.

The cottage is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical four-window front, which includes two gabled dormers and a buttress on the left side. The left side has been rebuilt, featuring a doorway at the extreme left, while a second doorway on the extreme right leads directly into the right-hand room. Some remnants of an old wallplate can be seen on the front at the right. The windows are fitted with 2-light casements, each having six panes per light.

Inside, the right-hand room boasts a large open fireplace with one ashlar jamb, a chamfered stopped lintel, and a bread oven. There is one cross beam and one half-beam, the latter featuring run-out stops. The middle room contains a plain beam with mortises that likely supported a former plank and muntin screen. The stair turret has chamfered stopped doorways. Two jointed cruck roof trusses are visible beneath a later roof, and these trusses originally had a threaded ridge and trenched purlins. Trumps Cottage is an attractive early 17th-century or earlier house located near the church.

Local climate

Trumps Cottage receives an average of 900 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 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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