Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House.
Primrose Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-obsidian-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Primrose Cottage, Ashreigney
- OS grid reference
- SS 609 139
- Coordinates
- 50.90834, -3.97939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Primrose Cottage is a small house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features rendered cob and rubble walls and has a gable-ended thatch roof with two brick gable end stacks. The layout consists of a two-room plan, with each room heated by a gable end fireplace. A 20th-century staircase has been inserted between the two rooms.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a regular two-window front, featuring later 20th-century one and two-light casements without glazing bars. Access is provided through a 20th-century conservatory located along the rear wall.
Inside, the left-hand room contains an open fireplace with a cambered wooden lintel that is chamfered with run-out stops, along with a rough ceiling beam. The roof structure consists of straight, insubstantial principal rafters resting on wall plates.
Local climate
Primrose Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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