Cliff Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Cliff Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-flagstone-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cliff Cottage, Cleave Houses, Northam, EX39 2RH
- OS grid reference
- SS 455 282
- Coordinates
- 51.03301, -4.20437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cliff Cottage is an early 19th-century, two-storey building with five windows that do not have glazing bars. It features a slate roof and a remodelled front, which includes a round-headed central doorway and a pedimented gable. The exterior is creamwashed plaster. Cliff Cottage is part of a group of buildings known as Cleave Houses.
Local climate
Cliff Cottage receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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