Briar Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1961. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Briar Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-pedestal-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Briar Cottage, Ashton, EX6 7QR
- OS grid reference
- SX 856 847
- Coordinates
- 50.65078, -3.61835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Briar Cottage is a small cottage, likely dating from the late 17th or early 18th century. The thatch roof was removed in 1959 and replaced with tiles. The exterior is whitewashed rendered cob and stone rubble with a gabled tiled roof. A projecting stack is on the right-hand end, and there's a rear left corner stack dating from the 20th century.
The cottage originally comprised a principal heated room to the right, a narrow service room to the left, and a small front outshut on the right-hand side. The front facade has an asymmetrical arrangement, with a two-light casement window to the left, a door to the right, and the roof slopes down over the outshut in a catslide fashion. A door and window are present on the inner return of the outshut. The left gable end of the main block has a doorway leading into the service room, flanked by small windows, and one window in the gable itself.
Inside, the heated room retains a chamfered crossbeam. The roof was not inspected, but may be of interest.
Briar Cottage is an unusual example of a very small early cottage and contributes to the group value of buildings in the centre of an exceptionally unspoiled village.
Local climate
Briar Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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