Copy Lake Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Copy Lake Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-banister-sedge
- 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
- Copy Lake Cottage, Ashreigney, EX18 7BB
- OS grid reference
- SS 659 140
- Coordinates
- 50.90995, -3.90757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Copy Lake Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 18th century, with a 20th-century addition. It features rendered cob and rubble walls and a thatched roof that is hipped to the left and gabled to the right. There is a brick stack at the right gable end. The cottage has a two-room plan, with the right-hand room heated by a gable-end fireplace. The exterior is two storeys high, with a regular two-window front that includes later 20th-century two-light casements. To the right of the centre, there is a gabled 20th-century thatch porch with a glazed door. Inside, the right-hand room has an open fireplace with a cambered wooden lintel.
Local climate
Copy Lake 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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