Windwhistle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House.
Windwhistle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-entrance-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Windwhistle Cottage, Dowland
- OS grid reference
- SS 584 101
- Coordinates
- 50.87355, -4.01248
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Windwhistle Cottage is a small house dating from the early 18th century, with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features rendered cob and rubble walls and a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end, with a slate roof on the 20th-century addition. There is a projecting rendered rubble stack at the right gable end with a brick shaft, and a brick stack at the rear outshut. The layout consists of a two-room plan, with the right-hand room being heated. There is likely a 19th-century outshut built along the rear walls, and a late 20th-century wing added to the front of the left-hand end. The exterior is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical three-window front featuring 20th-century two-light leaded-pane casements and a single light casement to the right of centre on the ground floor. The large 20th-century wing projects from the left-hand end, and there is a doorway in the rear outshut. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Windwhistle 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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