The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1989. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
low-landing-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1989
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, Welcombe, EX39 6HF
OS grid reference
SS 228 184
Coordinates
50.93801, -4.52296
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located in Welcombe. It features rubble and cob walls that are rendered, with a gable-ended thatched roof and a brick chimney stack from the 19th century on the left side. The layout includes two rooms on the ground floor; the right room is unheated, while the left room is heated by a gable end stack. There is a small lobby to the right in front of the front room. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows on the first floor, which are 2-light 19th-century casements. The door on the ground floor, located to the right, is a plank door. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

The Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% 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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