Lobster Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1951. A C18/Earlier Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Lobster Cottages
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1951
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lobster Cottages, 17, 19 and 21, Dawlish
- OS grid reference
- SX 952 748
- Coordinates
- 50.56393, -3.48051
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are 18th century or earlier corner cottages located in Holcombe Village, Dawlish. The cottages are built with a stone rubble core, later plastered, and have a thatched roof with eyebrow dormers. There are five wooden casement windows. Two thatched porches are present, supported by rustic timber. Historically, the site was the Lobster Inn and was associated with smuggling.
Local climate
Lobster Cottages receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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