Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. Cottage.
Rock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-buttress-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1951
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rock Cottage, 2, the Quay, Northam, EX39 1QS
- OS grid reference
- SS 465 303
- Coordinates
- 51.05235, -4.19101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Cottage is a 18th century or early 19th century building located on The Quay in Appledore. It is two storeys high and features two windows, with a stucco exterior. The doorcase is adorned with slender fluted pilasters and an arched fanlight. The ground floor has a rusticated finish, and the building is topped with a moulded eaves cornice. Rock Cottage is part of a group of listed buildings on The Quay.
Local climate
Rock 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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