Vanstones Cottage and Penwyn is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1977. Pair of cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Vanstones Cottage and Penwyn
- WRENN ID
- fallen-corner-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1977
- Type
- Pair of cottages
- Address
- Vanstones Cottage and Penwyn, Hartland, EX39 6DU
- OS grid reference
- SS 236 246
- Coordinates
- 50.99414, -4.51378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vanstones Cottage and Penwyn is a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They are likely constructed from rubble and cob, with plastered and whitewashed walls. The cottages feature a thatched roof, which is half-hipped on the left side and hipped on the right. There are two brick stacks, one axial, located at the right gable.
The layout consists of an attached pair of cottages, each with two principal rooms on the ground floor and a central dividing axial stack. The exterior is two storeys high, with a symmetrical arrangement of windows: two sets of two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars on the first floor. There are two door openings, one situated between each pair of windows, featuring plank doors and open-fronted wooden porches. The forecourt is enclosed by ornamental iron railings, and the ground floor windows have slate drips above them. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Vanstones Cottage and Penwyn 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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