Numbers 1-6 Railway Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Numbers 1-6 Railway Cottages

WRENN ID
fallow-corridor-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Numbers 1-6 Railway Cottages, Ashwater, EX22 7YH
OS grid reference
SS 404 027
Coordinates
50.80273, -4.2654
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 1-6 Railway Cottages are a row of six cottages dating from the late 19th century. They were likely built in connection with Dunsland Cross railway station on the Halwill to Bude railway line, which opened in 1879.

The cottages have brick construction, with the fronts covered in slate. They feature a slate roof with gabled ends, deep eaves, and chamfered timber eaves brackets. The ridge has six chimneys with slate-covered shafts. The symmetrical front has 16 windows. The narrow front doors have integral rectangular fanlights and slate-hung reveals, all beneath slated porch canopies supported by timber brackets. The windows are 1-, 2- and 3-light casements with 2 panes per light, and slate-hung reveals and bullnose brick sills. Numbers 3-6 retain their original windows and front doors. Number 2 has original glazing to the first floor only and a replaced front door, while number 1 has 20th-century glazing and a 20th-century front door. The interior of the cottages has not been inspected.

Local climate

Numbers 1-6 Railway Cottages 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% 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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