Elm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1987. A Late C17/early C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Elm Cottage

WRENN ID
long-transept-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Teignbridge
Constituency
Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 July 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Elm Cottage, Main Street, Abbotskerswell, TQ12 5NU
OS grid reference
SX 856 688
Coordinates
50.5082, -3.61368
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elm Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It features rendered rubble walls and a slate roof, which has a gabled end on the left and a hipped end on the right. The building has two large rendered rubble gable end stacks, with the stack on the left side offset from the ridge, and a small rendered brick chimney shaft at the front. The layout is double depth, with two heated rooms on the left, possibly with a central passage, and an unheated room on the right.

The cottage is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two windows. The first-floor windows are three-light casements from the 19th century, although the glazing bars have been removed; the left window includes one leaded light on the right side. On the ground floor, there are early 20th-century casements with glazing bars, featuring three lights on the left and two lights on the right. A plank door from the early 20th century is located to the right of centre, sheltered by a slate pentice porch hood. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Elm 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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