Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Rock Cottage

WRENN ID
forbidden-solder-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Teignbridge
Constituency
Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 December 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Rock Cottage, Forches Hill, Stokeinteignhead, TQ12 4QX
OS grid reference
SX 915 706
Coordinates
50.52515, -3.53145
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rock Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 17th century or earlier, with a 20th-century addition on the left end. It is constructed of whitewashed rendered cob and stone rubble, topped with a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the right end and gabled at the left end. The building features a projecting front lateral stack with set-offs. The layout probably consists of two rooms with a central entrance; the right-hand room is heated by the front lateral stack, while the left-hand room has a stack at the left end but may have been unheated originally.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with one window. There is a 20th-century front door to the left of the stack, along with one small ground floor window and a 20th-century three-light timber casement window with glazing bars on the first floor. The right side of the building has a first-floor three-light timber casement window with glazing bars. The rear elevation, which faces Forches Hill, features one first-floor and one ground-floor two-light timber casement window with glazing bars, as well as one small ground-floor 20th-century window. There is a plaster armorial bearing with supporters of unknown date on the rear wall, which is identical to the armorial bearings found at Old Bailey Farmhouse. Access to the interior was not possible at the time of the survey in 1987, but it is said to have exposed carpentry.

Local climate

Rock Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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