Fountain Cottage and Sunnyside is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Cottage.
Fountain Cottage and Sunnyside
- WRENN ID
- dusk-rubble-barley
- 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
- Address
- Fountain Cottage and Sunnyside, West Lane, Dolton
- OS grid reference
- SS 567 120
- Coordinates
- 50.89009, -4.0377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fountain Cottage and Sunnyside is a pair of cottages dating from the 18th century. They have rendered cob walls and a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. There is a central brick chimney stack and a small shaft at the right gable end.
The cottages are two storeys high and have an asymmetrical window arrangement with two windows for Fountain Cottage and one for Sunnyside. Fountain Cottage features a regular façade with early 19th century 12-pane sash windows on the first floor and 20th century one and two-light casements on the ground floor, along with a central 20th century glazed porch. Sunnyside, located to the right, has an asymmetrical front with later 20th century diamond leaded pane two-light casements on each floor and a 20th century gabled porch to the right.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Fountain Cottage and Sunnyside 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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