Upper Cottwood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Cottage.
Upper Cottwood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tilted-lintel-crimson
- 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
- Upper Cottwood Cottage, Ashreigney
- OS grid reference
- SS 611 144
- Coordinates
- 50.91235, -3.97703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Cottwood Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 18th century, with a 19th-century addition. It features rendered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, with a tile roof on the outshut. There is a projecting rendered rubble stack with a brick shaft at the right-hand end. The original layout consisted of a single room heated by an end stack, with a 19th-century outshut added at each end.
The cottage is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two windows, featuring late 20th-century 1- and 2-light diamond leaded casements. The left-hand ground floor window was previously a doorway and has a slate doorhood above it. There is a large outshut on the right-hand end with a 20th-century plank door, and another outshut on the left-hand end.
Inside, there is an open fireplace with a plain wooden lintel. This cottage is part of an interesting hamlet of originally identical cottages arranged in a row.
Local climate
Upper Cottwood 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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- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1999
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