Beach Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1973. House.
Beach Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-turret-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beach Cottage, Cleave Houses, Northam
- OS grid reference
- SS 455 282
- Coordinates
- 51.03255, -4.20454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beach Cottage is an early to mid 19th century, two-storey building located in Northam. It features three first-floor casements with glazing bars, including a central blank panel. The exterior is finished in stucco and creamwashed. There is one window wing to the north that is slightly set back. The central entrance is topped with a flat hood supported by shaped brackets, and there are three-light windows on each side of the entrance. All the tile buildings listed under Cleave Houses are part of a group.
Local climate
Beach Cottage receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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