April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. House.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-finial-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- April Cottage, Parkham
- OS grid reference
- SS 394 220
- Coordinates
- 50.97581, -4.28758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage is a 17th-century house located in Parkham. It features colourwashed render over cob and stone, with a thatched roof that is half-hipped to the right. The left end has a stone stack finished in 19th-century brick. The house has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high with a one-window range. To the left, there is a gabled 20th-century porch with a 20th-century door. The windows are late 19th-century three-light casements, which have flat rendered arches above them. There is a similar style of casement window and a 20th-century extension at the rear. Although the interior was not inspected, it is noted to have 17th-century joists and a chamfered bressummer over an open fireplace to the left.
Local climate
April Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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