Town Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
Town Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-bronze-rush
- 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
- Town Farm Cottage, Alwington, EX39 5DA
- OS grid reference
- SS 404 231
- Coordinates
- 50.98553, -4.27381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Farm Cottage is a late 17th-century building that was originally three cottages and is now a single house. It features a colourwash finish over coursed slatestone rubble, with gabled roofs covered in asbestos slate and slate. The left end has a 17th-century stone stack with drip courses, while a 19th-century brick stack finishes the ridge. The cottage has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys high, with a four-window range. There is a mid-19th-century gabled porch to the left of the centre, which has a 20th-century outer door and a 19th-century plank inner door. The windows have timber lintels above 20th-century casements, and there is a rolled steel joist above a 20th-century garage entry to the right.
Inside, there is an ogee-stopped bressummer over an open fireplace in the garage to the right, along with chamfered and plain beams. To the left, there is a similar open fireplace with a cloam oven, adjacent to plank cupboard doors that feature late 17th-century butterfly hinges. The first floor includes principal rafters for two 17th-century A-frame trusses on the right.
Local climate
Town Farm Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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