Lower Newbridge Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Cottage.
Lower Newbridge Cottages
- WRENN ID
- grim-storey-martin
- 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
- Lower Newbridge Cottages, Huish
- OS grid reference
- SS 547 111
- Coordinates
- 50.88174, -4.06611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Newbridge Cottages are a pair of estate cottages built in the mid to late 19th century. They feature stone rubble walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, with one axial rubble stack and one rear lateral stack. The cottages are arranged in a two-room plan at right angles to each other. The cottage facing the road has an entrance into the left-hand room, while the other cottage has a central entrance.
The exterior is two storeys high. The road-facing cottage has an asymmetrical front with three windows, where the right-hand end projects as a gable. There are two gables above the first-floor windows, which are original two-light transomed casements with decorative leaded glazing. The right-hand windows have hoodmoulds above them. To the left, there is an original rustic thatch roof trelliswork porch with a plank and part-glazed door behind it. Both the porch and the gables feature decorative bargeboards. There is a 20th-century flat-roofed addition at the rear.
The right-hand cottage, which faces down the road, has a symmetrical two-window double-gabled front with identical windows and a central porch. The ground floor windows also have hoodmoulds, and there is a lean-to addition from the 19th or 20th century against the left-hand end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Lower Newbridge Cottages 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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