Caute Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Caute Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-garret-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Caute Cottage, Shebbear
- OS grid reference
- SS 432 106
- Coordinates
- 50.87413, -4.22889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Caute Cottage is a cottage from the 18th century, with additions and alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features rendered cob walls and a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. There is a brick stack at the right gable end.
The cottage has a two-room plan, with a heated room on the right. The right-hand end includes a 19th-century addition, which was originally an outbuilding and has been converted into part of the accommodation. There is also a small lean-to, likely from the 19th century, added against the left-hand wall.
The exterior is two storeys high, with a regular two-window front featuring 20th-century two-light diamond leaded glazed casements. The lean-to on the left end and the addition on the right end both have similar windows to the main cottage.
Inside, there is an open fireplace with a wooden lintel and a bread oven on the right.
Local climate
Caute Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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