Little Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. House. 1 related planning application.

Little Hill Cottage

WRENN ID
under-flue-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1988
Type
House
Address
Little Hill Cottage, Weare Giffard, EX39 4QW
OS grid reference
SS 466 225
Coordinates
50.98176, -4.18619
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Hill Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century, with an early 19th-century extension on the right. It is constructed of rendered stone and cob, topped with a gabled thatch roof. The building features a 20th-century brick ridge stack, which was originally at the end, along with a left end stack. The cottage has a two-unit plan that has been extended to a three-unit plan and stands two storeys tall with a three-window range.

A 20th-century door is set in a 20th-century lean-to porch on the left. To the right of the porch, there is a round arch over a 20th-century window in the original doorway. The windows are primarily late 19th-century three-light casements, with a similar 20th-century casement located in the centre of the ground floor. Additionally, there is a 20th-century extension at the rear right of the cottage.

Inside, the central room features an 18th-century open fireplace with a cloam oven. The roof structure includes an 18th-century four-bay A-frame roof with pegged collars, along with a similar early 19th-century two-bay roof.

Local climate

Little Hill Cottage receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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