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

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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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