Milford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1989. House.

Milford Cottage

WRENN ID
unlit-tower-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1989
Type
House
Address
Milford Cottage, Hartland
OS grid reference
SS 231 226
Coordinates
50.97571, -4.51993
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Milford Cottage is a small house dating from around the mid 17th century, with an addition from the 18th century. The exterior features whitewashed rubble walls and cob at the rear outshot, topped by a gable-end roof made of corrugated asbestos. There are two chimney stacks: a squared rubble stack with drip moulds on the right gable-end and a projecting rubble stack with a brick shaft on the left gable-end.

The house has a two-room plan, both of which are heated. At one point, it was divided into two cottages, but there is no thick central dividing wall, suggesting this was not the original layout. The rear outshut was likely added in the 18th century.

The exterior is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical front featuring three windows that are early to mid 20th century two-light casements. There are two 19th-century plank doors located to the left and right of the centre, with a very small light in between.

Inside, the right-hand room has an original fireplace with a chamfered and step-stopped wooden lintel. This room also contains a chamfered ceiling beam and a doorframe leading to the rear outshot. Although there is no access to the loft, the roof structure appears to be original, consisting of substantial straight principals with trenched purlins.

Local climate

Milford Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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