Fry's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Fry's Cottage

WRENN ID
fossil-minaret-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Fry's Cottage, Parkham, EX39 5ER
OS grid reference
SS 397 221
Coordinates
50.97671, -4.28394
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fry’s Cottage is a late 17th and early 18th century cottage, with a late 19th century extension to the right. It is constructed of colourwashed render over coursed slatestone rubble. The roof is gabled, with asbestos sheeting on the left-hand side and a late 19th century slate roof on the right; a stone ridge stack replaces what was formerly a right-end stack of the original 17th century house. The cottage was originally a single-unit plan but was extended to a two-unit plan in the late 19th century. It has two storeys and a two-window front. A late 19th century plank door is located to the right of centre, set in a beaded frame. The windows are late 19th century two-light casements with flat rendered arches above. Inside, there are boxed beams, and the bases of A-frame trusses are visible.

Local climate

Fry's Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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