Venstone Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Venstone Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-pedestal-finch
- 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
- Venstone Cottage, Dolton, EX19 8RF
- OS grid reference
- SS 559 127
- Coordinates
- 50.89609, -4.0502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Venstone Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 18th century, with alterations and an addition made in the 19th century. It features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatched roof. There are two gable-end stacks; the left-hand stack is made of brick, while the right-hand stack is a projecting rendered rubble with a brick shaft.
The cottage has a two-room plan, with both rooms heated, although the left-hand stack may have been inserted later. A 19th-century outshut has been added along the rear wall, which has a catslide roof.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical front with two windows. The windows are 19th-century small-paned three-light casements. There is a central 19th-century six-panelled door located under a gabled doorhood. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Venstone Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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