Adelaide is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. Cottage.
Adelaide
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-stronghold-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Adelaide, Bradford
- OS grid reference
- SS 433 066
- Coordinates
- 50.83804, -4.22606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Adelaide is a cottage dating from the 18th century, with a 19th-century addition. It features rendered cob and stone rubble walls and a thatched roof that is gabled at the left end and half-hipped at the right. There is a brick lateral stack at the rear. The cottage has a very small two-room layout, with the main room accessed from the front, which includes a fireplace in the inner corner, and a very small service room beyond it. A 19th-century lean-to has been added at this end.
The cottage is two storeys high. The elevation facing the road has only one 19th-century or early 20th-century casement window. The rear elevation features a small light at the left end and an early 20th-century two-light casement on each floor in the right-hand end wall. Projecting from this wall is a 19th-century thatched roof porch, which contains a plank door.
Inside, there is a 19th-century chimneypiece and mantel in the main room, along with a tongue and groove partition that separates it from the small room beyond. This cottage is a rare example of a virtually unaltered small dwelling that was once common in Devon.
Local climate
Adelaide sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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