Lantern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Lantern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- burning-sentry-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lantern Cottage, Pye Corner, Kenn, EX6 7TD
- OS grid reference
- SX 916 865
- Coordinates
- 50.66831, -3.535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lantern Cottage is probably of late 17th century origin, with possible 18th century additions. It comprises two adjoining cottages, now combined into a single house, situated on a prominent corner site in Kennford. The exterior is whitewashed cob on stone rubble footings, with a thatched roof and gabled ends. There are projecting stacks, one facing north, the other west. The plan is L-shaped. The west-facing block appears to have originally contained a heated room and a service room. The north-facing block may have been a single-room cottage, originally with a newel stair near the stack. The north elevation has an asymmetrical two-window façade (facing north), with a plank front door to the right and two 2-light timber windows with glazing bars. A projecting stack on the west-facing block has drip ledges. The west elevation has two ground floor and one first floor casement windows with glazing bars. The west-facing block’s interior includes a rough chamfered crossbeam and an open fireplace with a chamfered scroll-stopped timber lintel. A second fireplace has a low, plain timber lintel and may be a rebuild. The roof has straight principal rafters.
Local climate
Lantern Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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