Row of 4 Cottages Including Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Row of 4 Cottages Including Post Office

WRENN ID
pitched-buttress-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Cottage
Address
Row of 4 Cottages Including Post Office, Merton, EX20 3DZ
OS grid reference
SS 528 122
Coordinates
50.89087, -4.0935
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This row of four estate cottages, which includes a Post Office, dates from the mid to late 19th century. The cottages are constructed with stone rubble walls and feature a hipped slate roof. There are two large axial stone ashlar stacks. Each cottage has a two-room plan, typically consisting of one larger heated room and a smaller service room.

The exterior presents a symmetrical front with seven windows, showcasing mainly original fenestration. The windows include two-light casements, with two larger four-light casements at the center that appear to be shared by two cottages, and a three-light casement to the right of each porch. Each window is topped with a dressed stone flat arch and a hoodmould. The row features four identical stone gabled porches, regularly spaced, each adorned with decorative bargeboards and stone arches that include keystones. Behind each porch is a 19th-century four-panelled door, except for the right-hand cottage, which has a 20th-century glazed door. The cottages were built by the Clinton Estate. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Row of 4 Cottages Including Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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