Elm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Elm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-gable-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elm Cottage, Winkleigh, EX19 8JJ
- OS grid reference
- SS 636 077
- Coordinates
- 50.85315, -3.93811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Cottage is a small house dating from around the early 18th century, with a 19th-century addition. It has walls of rendered cob and a gable-ended thatched roof. There are two gable-end stacks: the left-hand one is of projecting rendered rubble with a brick shaft, and the right-hand stack is entirely brick.
The original plan was for two rooms, each with a fireplace, although the fireplace in the left-hand room was inserted later. A 19th-century outshut was added along the rear wall.
The front has an asymmetrical façade with three windows on the front. These are later 20th-century casements without glazing bars. A 20th-century gabled porch, with a stable-type door, is located to the left of centre. An outshut runs along the rear wall.
Inside, the right-hand room retains a rough ceiling beam and an open fireplace with a rough wooden lintel, alongside a cloam oven with a door.
Local climate
Elm Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- 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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