Church Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottages.
Church Gate
- WRENN ID
- ruined-latch-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Church Gate, 1 and 2, Petrockstow
- OS grid reference
- SS 513 091
- Coordinates
- 50.86255, -4.11353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Gate consists of a pair of cottages built around the early to mid 18th century, with some 19th century additions. The cottages have rendered cob and rubble walls and feature two brick axial stacks. Each cottage has a layout of two rooms with a central axial stack that serves both rooms, along with a lobby entrance located in front of it. At the back of each house, there is a 19th century outshut.
The exterior is two storeys high with a regular four-window front, where each cottage has two windows. Cottage No. 1, on the right, has mid 20th century two-light casements and a three-light canted bay window on the ground floor to the left, along with a central 20th century plank door. Cottage No. 2, on the left, features three-light early to mid 20th century casements and a central 20th century part-glazed door.
Inside, neither cottage shows early features on the ground floor, although they may be hidden. It is possible that original roof timbers are still intact.
Local climate
Church Gate 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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