George's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1958. House.
George's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-cupola-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1958
- Type
- House
- Address
- George's Cottage, 9, Parkham
- OS grid reference
- SS 356 234
- Coordinates
- 50.98689, -4.34302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
George's Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century. It features a colourwashed exterior made of coursed slatestone rubble and has a gabled thatch roof, with mid-19th century brick stacks at each end. The cottage has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high, with a two-window range. The central entrance is a late 19th century plank door, flanked by mid-19th century two-light horizontal sliding sash windows that have glazing bars and are set in beaded architraves. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
George's 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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