The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1977. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- odd-casement-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Higher Ringmore Road, Shaldon, TQ14 0HG
- OS grid reference
- SX 924 719
- Coordinates
- 50.53726, -3.5184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house likely dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed of painted roughcast over red sandstone rubble and cob, with a half-hipped thatched roof. A ridge stack is located to the left of the front door and a further stack to the right end of the roof. The cottage has a two-unit plan, featuring an end stack to the right-hand room and a stack to the large left-hand room, which backs onto the original entrance position. A 19th-century rear addition exists.
The cottage is single-storey with an attic, and has a three-window façade. The windows are predominantly 20th-century, consisting of a central door and 2-light casement windows. A small stone-mullioned pointed-arched 2-light window, possibly dating from the 14th century and later reset, is located at eaves level in the centre of the first floor. The interior was not inspected but is reportedly characterized by good late 17th-century cupboards set into the fireplace recesses.
Local climate
The Old Cottage 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 — 2 transactions since 2009
- 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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