Dock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1973. House. 3 related planning applications.
Dock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-groin-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dock Cottage, New Quay Street, Northam, EX39 1LU
- OS grid reference
- SS 464 301
- Coordinates
- 51.05017, -4.19139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dock Cottage is an early 19th-century building that incorporates an earlier wing at the rear. It has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys tall with an attic, featuring two sash dormers. The exterior is plastered and colourwashed, with a first-floor band. The front, which faces the estuary, has two projecting wooden bays on each floor, along with a verandah and a balcony situated between them. The cottage occupies a prominent position.
Local climate
Dock 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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