Danns Cottage 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.

Danns Cottage

WRENN ID
blind-turret-shade
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
Danns Cottage, Beaford, EX19 8NA
OS grid reference
SS 565 143
Coordinates
50.91055, -4.0425
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Danns Cottage is a cottage dating from the early to mid 18th century, with a 19th-century addition. It is constructed of rendered cob and features a thatched roof made of wheat straw, which is hipped to the right. There is a rendered end stack and a rendered addition with a gable-ended roof covered in modern asbestos slate. The original 18th-century cottage faces south and has a larger principal room on the left with an integral end stack, and a smaller unheated room on the right. The entrance is roughly central, likely leading into the right-hand end of the larger room. The 19th-century addition is located to the left.

The exterior includes mid to late 19th-century two-light wooden casement windows, with three-light casements on the ground and first floors to the left, and a two-light casement on the first floor to the right. There is a central 19th-century boarded door framed in wood with beading, and a gabled rendered timber porch. A buttress is located to the right. The 19th-century addition to the right has a two-light wooden casement window and a modern glazed door. The right-hand end wall of the 18th-century part features a ground-floor two-light wooden casement, and the rear has a ground-floor two-light wooden casement along with a raking buttress. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Danns 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • 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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