The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
drifting-paling-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, High Bickington, EX37 9AY
OS grid reference
SS 600 204
Coordinates
50.96634, -3.99505
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an early 18th-century cottage, likely with a 19th-century outshut added later. It is constructed with rendered walls, possibly over cob, and has a thatched roof, half-hipped to the right side. Brick end stacks are present. A stone rubble outshut has a lean-to slate roof. The cottage's original plan features two rooms arranged centrally, facing north, with end stacks positioned externally on the right side. A 19th-century outshut extends from the rear.

The front elevation presents a symmetrical facade with three windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor. These windows are late 19th-century, featuring small panes in wooden casements. A late 19th-century canted bay window is located on the right side of the ground floor, also with small-paned wooden casements arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern, and topped with a hipped slate roof. The central doorway has a late 19th-century plank door set within a chamfered wooden frame. The rear of the cottage displays 19th-century two-light wooden casements on both the ground and first floors to the left. The outshut has a two-light wooden casement to its right and a half-glazed door to its left. The interior remains uninspected. The cottage is situated on an island site at the south end of the village, and adjoins Rose Cottage.

Local climate

The Cottage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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  • Sale history — 14 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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