Dartmoor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Dartmoor Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-crypt-heron
- 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
- Dartmoor Cottage, Dowland, EX19 8PG
- OS grid reference
- SS 577 096
- Coordinates
- 50.86926, -4.02225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dartmoor Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with a 19th-century addition and 20th-century alterations. It features rendered cob walls and a thatched roof that is gabled at the left end and hipped at the right. There are two brick stacks: one axial and one at the left gable end.
The original layout consists of a three-room plan with a baffle entry in front of the axial stack, which serves the central and right-hand rooms. There is also an original entrance in the gable end of the right-hand room. The left-hand room is heated by the gable-end stack, while the right-hand room is now used for storage rather than as part of the living space. A 19th-century outbuilding has been added at the right-hand end.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front featuring three windows, which are 20th-century two-light casements. There is a slight projection to the right of centre in front of the axial stack, which has a plank door. To the left of centre, there is a late 20th-century gabled porch with a part-glazed door. A lean-to structure is present against the right-hand end, covered by a catslide roof and with a door at the front. On the rear elevation, there is a 17th-century two-light chamfered wooden mullion window located to the left of centre on the first floor.
Inside, the fireplace in the left-hand room features a narrow-chamfered wooden lintel. The right-hand room has an open fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel and a 17th-century chamfered wooden doorframe in the end wall.
Local climate
Dartmoor 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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