Christmas Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Cottage.
Christmas Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-postern-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Christmas Cottage, the Square, Dolton, EX19 8QF
- OS grid reference
- SS 569 120
- Coordinates
- 50.8906, -4.03501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christmas Cottage is a cottage in a row, likely dating from the 18th century, although it may have earlier origins. The building features rendered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, with a brick stack located at the left-hand end. It has a one-room plan with a 19th-century rear outshot. The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two windows, which are 20th-century two-light casements; the ground floor window has small panes. To the right, there is a 20th-century part-glazed door beneath a glass hood. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Christmas 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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