Wayside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

Wayside Cottage

WRENN ID
riven-grate-plover
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
Wayside Cottage, Alwington, EX39 5BZ
OS grid reference
SS 414 234
Coordinates
50.98845, -4.26011
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wayside Cottage is a house originally built in the 18th century, which was converted into two cottages in the 19th century and has since been restored to a single dwelling. A datestone inscribed with "R.P. (Richard Passmore)/1829" is located on the stack to the right. The exterior features colourwashed render over stone and cob, topped with a gabled thatch roof. There are external end stacks made of rendered stone finished in 19th-century brick. The building has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys high with a three-window range.

To the right of the center, there is a 20th-century porch with a modern outer door and an early to mid-19th-century plank inner door. A doorway to the left has been blocked. The windows are late 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars, which are topped with flat rendered arches. At the rear, there is a 20th-century outshut with a slate roof. Inside, the cottage features two open fireplaces, one of which has a cloam oven to the right. The roof structure is a four-bay A-frame with pegged collars.

Local climate

Wayside 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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 2022
  • 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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