Ash Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottage.

Ash Cottage

WRENN ID
noble-hinge-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Ash Cottage, Petrockstow
OS grid reference
SS 517 081
Coordinates
50.85408, -4.10686
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ash Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with a 19th-century addition. It features plastered cob walls and a half-hipped thatch roof, with a central brick axial stack. The layout consists of a two-room plan with a baffle entry in front of the central stack, serving both rooms. A 19th-century lean-to has been added to the right-hand end. The original front doorway was blocked in the 20th century, and a new entry was created into the right-hand room.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical one-window front. There is a single 19th-century three-light casement window on the ground floor, located to the right of centre. To the right of this is a 20th-century gabled porch with panelled and glazed double doors. At the centre of the cottage is a slight two-storey projection that contains the blocked original doorway. A stone slate-roofed lean-to is attached to the right-hand end, featuring a two-light casement window on the front.

The interior is not fully accessible, but it appears that original features may be concealed beneath early 20th-century modernisations, although they likely still exist underneath.

Local climate

Ash Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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