Northfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. A Post-medieval Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Northfield Cottage

WRENN ID
muffled-shingle-crimson
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
Period
Post-medieval
Address
Northfield Cottage, North Road, Dolton, EX19 8QQ
OS grid reference
SS 570 121
Coordinates
50.89108, -4.03434
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Northfield Cottage is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century, with 20th-century additions. It has cob walls covered in plaster, and a thatched roof that is gabled on the left side and hipped on the right. A plastered rubble stack is at the left gable-end, with a brick shaft. The original plan comprised two rooms, with a contemporary outbuilding at the right-hand end and a 20th-century outshut added to the front. The front facade is asymmetrical, with a late 19th or early 20th-century two-light casement window with small panes on the ground floor to the left. A part-glazed porch, adjoining a brick outshut, is to its right. An outbuilding extends from the right end of the house, with a slate and corrugated iron roof. The rear elevation features an original three-light wooden mullion window with true-mitred glazing to the right of the ground floor, and a similar window to the outbuilding. The interior was inaccessible at the time of survey, but likely contains features of interest.

Local climate

Northfield Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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