Laburnum Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1989. House.
Laburnum Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-cornice-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laburnum Cottage, Woolfardisworthy
- OS grid reference
- SS 357 233
- Coordinates
- 50.98563, -4.34116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laburnum Cottage is a house that dates from the early 19th century and may have been a remodelling of an earlier structure. It features rendered stone rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof. There is a brick stack at the right gable end, and at the left end, there is a projecting semi-circular rendered stone stack with a brick shaft. Additionally, there is a brick stack at the left end of the outshut. The house has a two-room plan, both of which are heated, with a central entrance hall. A rear outshut likely contains a service room that is integral to the design.
The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window front, featuring 19th-century horned 16-pane sash windows, except for a marginal glazed light at the centre on the first floor. The central entrance has a 20th-century glazed and panelled door, which is sheltered by a small hood. In front of the house, there is a stone rubble wall that encloses the garden and rises at the left-hand end to form an entrance arch. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Laburnum 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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