Wheelwright's 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.
Wheelwright's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-gallery-lichen
- 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
- Wheelwright's Cottage, Rectory Road, Dolton, EX19 8QL
- OS grid reference
- SS 572 122
- Coordinates
- 50.8924, -4.0305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheelwright's Cottage is a small house dating from around the late 17th or early 18th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The walls are rendered cob, and the roof is thatched, gabled to the right-hand end and hipped to the left. A brick stack is located at the right gable. The original layout is unclear due to later changes but likely comprised two or three rooms, with a larger heated room at the right-hand end. The front facade is asymmetrical, with a single window above and three below. A late 19th-century four-pane sash window is located to the left of centre on the first floor. The ground floor features 20th-century one-light casements to the left of centre and to the right, along with a 20th-century former shop window on the left. A small 20th-century lean-to porch with a plank door is situated in front of the left-hand end, while a 20th-century thatched porch with a late 20th-century part-glazed door sits to the right of centre. The interior was inaccessible at the time of survey.
Local climate
Wheelwright's 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 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 1999
- 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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