Glen Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1977. House.

Glen Cottage

WRENN ID
night-moat-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 June 1977
Type
House
Address
Glen Cottage, Hartland
OS grid reference
SS 248 247
Coordinates
50.99583, -4.49785
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Glen Cottage is a small house, likely built in the mid to late 18th century, with a 19th-century addition. The walls are rendered, probably made of stone rubble, and it has a gable-ended thatch roof with two brick stacks at the gable ends. The layout consists of two heated rooms with a central entrance hall, and there is a 19th-century lean-to added along the rear wall.

The exterior features two storeys and a symmetrical front with three windows, which are early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sashes. The central door, also from the 19th century, has four flush panels and is topped by a heavy 20th-century thatch hood supported by rustic timber framing. The interior was inaccessible during the survey.

Local climate

Glen Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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