Amy's Cottage, Including Outbuilding Adjoining North [Belonging to Hideaway Cottage] is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1977. Cottage.

Amy's Cottage, Including Outbuilding Adjoining North [Belonging to Hideaway Cottage]

WRENN ID
crumbling-chimney-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 February 1977
Type
Cottage
Address
Amy's Cottage, Including Outbuilding Adjoining North [Belonging to Hideaway Cottage], EX19 8QD
OS grid reference
SS 570 120
Coordinates
50.89054, -4.0339
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Amy's Cottage, including the outbuilding adjoining to the north, is a cottage and outbuilding that dates from the early 18th century, with a 19th-century addition. The structure features plastered cob walls and a thatched roof that is gabled at the left end and hipped at the right. The plan consists of two rooms, with a larger heated room on the left and a smaller service room on the right. There is a 19th-century outbuilding attached at the left end and an outshut in front of the right-hand end.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has one window. On the left side, there are 19th-century small-paned two-light casements on each floor. A 19th-century lean-to is located in front of the right side, which includes a 20th-century glass lean-to porch at the angle. The single-storey outbuilding, which belongs to Hideaway Cottage, is attached at the left-hand end.

Inside, the left-hand room features a large stone rubble fireplace with a chamfered timber bressumer that has run-out stops, along with an oven that includes a stone shelf and a 19th-century iron door.

Local climate

Amy's Cottage, Including Outbuilding Adjoining North [Belonging to Hideaway 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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