Wren Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1955. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Wren Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-chamber-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1955
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Wren Cottage, Haccombe with Combe, TQ12 4SJ
- OS grid reference
- SX 891 698
- Coordinates
- 50.5182, -3.56476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wren Cottage is a former lodge to Haccombe House, likely built in the early 19th century, around the same time as the house's rebuilding. The cottage is whitewashed and rendered, featuring a deep thatched roof that extends over a verandah on three sides, with an axial stack that has a rendered shaft. It is designed in the cottage ornee style and has a two-room layout, with the main room at the front and a service room at the rear. This lodge is one of two that served the house, with the other having burned down before 1955.
The cottage is single-storey with an attic and has a symmetrical front with one window. It boasts a four-bay rustic verandah supported by renewed posts, featuring a short eaves canopy made of split logs, which continues for five bays on each side. There is a canted bay window at the front, along with 19th-century casement windows that have ornamental leaded panes, and similar casement windows on each side. The rear bays of the verandah on the sides have been enclosed, creating a porch on the left side. The thatched roof includes attic dormers, with three on the right side, two on the left, and one in the center, all fitted with 19th-century casement windows with ornamental leaded panes. The interior has not been inspected. Wren Cottage is an attractive thatched lodge situated in an isolated position.
Local climate
Wren 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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