No 2 Venton Cottages and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. House.

No 2 Venton Cottages and Attached Outbuilding

WRENN ID
riven-gallery-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1988
Type
House
Address
No 2 Venton Cottages and Attached Outbuilding, Weare Giffard
OS grid reference
SS 483 228
Coordinates
50.98548, -4.16138
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 2 Venton Cottages and the attached outbuilding are two dwellings, now functioning as a house and outbuilding, dating from the mid to late 17th century. The structure is built of roughcast stone and cob, topped with a hipped and gabled artificial slate roof, and features a 20th-century brick ridge stack. The building has a three-unit plan with a cross passage to the left of the central hall. It is two storeys high and has a three-window range. A 20th-century porch and door are located to the left, and there are flat arches over late 19th and 20th-century two-light casements.

Inside, the ground floor has chamfered and plain beams, and there is an 18th-century plank door with a sneck latch at the rear of the passage. The roof structure is a 17th-century A-frame with lap-jointed collars and a ridge purlin set into notched apexes.

The attached outbuilding, which was formerly a separate dwelling, is a two-storey structure also built of roughcast stone and cob, with a corrugated iron roof and a 20th-century metal door. The rear wall features a 19th-century metal door. Inside, the outbuilding has a 17th-century three-bay A-frame roof with lap-jointed collars and a ridge purlin set into notched apexes. The first-floor beams have been removed, but there is a 17th-century fireplace on the right end wall of the first floor, which has a wattle and daub hood resting on a plain corbelled bressummer.

Local climate

No 2 Venton Cottages and Attached Outbuilding receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 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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