Smallmarsh Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Smallmarsh Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-terrace-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Smallmarsh Cottage, High Bickington, EX37 9AT
- OS grid reference
- SS 608 220
- Coordinates
- 50.98127, -3.984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smallmarsh Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the early 18th century, with some minor additions from the mid-19th century. The building is rendered, probably over stone rubble and cob, and features a wheatstraw thatched roof that is hipped to the right. There is a rendered end stack on the left with chamfered offsets.
The cottage has a two-room plan typical of the 18th century, with a central entrance. The larger room is likely on the left and has an integral end stack. There is probably a 19th-century outshut at the right end. The building is two-storeys high.
The exterior has an asymmetrical front. On the first floor, there is a small 19th-century two-light wooden casement window to the right, and on the ground floor, there are two late 19th-century small-paned two-light wooden casement windows. The entrance is roughly central and features a 19th-century boarded door within a pegged wooden frame. The outshut to the right includes a 19th-century two-light wooden casement on the first floor and a one-light wooden casement on the ground floor.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Smallmarsh Cottage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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