Jennett's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1988. Cottage.

Jennett's Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-mullion-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Jennett's Cottage, Buckland Road, Bideford
OS grid reference
SS 433 247
Coordinates
51.00095, -4.23336
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Jennett's Cottage is a cottage believed to have been built for a gamekeeper on the Moreton House estate. It dates from the early 19th century and has late 20th-century additions. The structure is made of painted stone rubble and cob, topped with a thatched roof. A rendered chimney is barely visible above the thatch. The cottage has a two-room plan with a winder stair located in the rear wall and is one storey high with a garret. It features a cottage ornee style, with a central doorway flanked by a window on either side. There are two dormers in the thatch, with windows that have cranked heads. The thatch extends down over a verandah supported by rough tree trunks stripped of their bark. Opposite the door, the verandah projects forward to create a small porch with a gabled roof. The windows have late 20th-century plain wood casements. To the right, there is a late 20th-century wing designed in the same style as the original, and to the left, a late 20th-century conservatory.

The interior has not been inspected, but a previous description notes a tight winder stair from the main room, with a rebuilt open fire; the fireplace in the left room has a rough bressumer beam built in at a high level in the wall.

Local climate

Jennett's 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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