Monk's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. House.

Monk's Cottage

WRENN ID
turning-plaster-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1988
Type
House
Address
Monk's Cottage, Landcross
OS grid reference
SS 460 237
Coordinates
50.99293, -4.19572
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Monk's Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It features colourwashed render over coursed slatestone rubble and has a gabled slate roof with a rendered stack at the left end. The building has a two-unit plan with a stair projection at the rear and stands two storeys tall with a two-window range. There is a 20th-century porch on the right that includes a reset 18th-century plank door with strap hinges. To the left, there is a flat rendered arch above a late 18th-century three-light wood-mullioned casement, which has butterfly hinges, as well as similar arches over 20th-century casements.

Inside, the main room on the left has 18th-century plank doors with strap hinges leading to the right and to the stairs. It features a plain heavy beam and plain joists, along with a reset late 16th-century carved stone head above the open fireplace. There is a 17th-century chamfered wood doorway leading to the winder stairs, which has a stair light. The interior has only been partially inspected.

Local climate

Monk's Cottage receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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