Magpie Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Magpie Cottages
- WRENN ID
- moated-moulding-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Magpie Cottages, Petrockstow, EX20 3QH
- OS grid reference
- SS 511 073
- Coordinates
- 50.84608, -4.11503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Magpie Cottages are a pair of cottages likely dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, situated in Petrockstowe. The walls are rendered cob, and the roof is thatched, hipped to the left and gabled to the right end. A projecting stack of rendered rubble is at the right gable, and a brick axial stack is also present.
The left-hand cottage has a two-room plan with its axial stack between the rooms, and an entrance to the left-hand cottage. The right-hand cottage features a single-room plan with a staircase and a small pantry to the left.
The front façade is asymmetrical, with a four-window arrangement featuring early 20th-century two-light casement windows. A plank door is located to the left of centre on the left-hand cottage, and a central plank door is on the right-hand cottage.
The interior of the right-hand cottage includes a chamfered axial beam. The interior of the left-hand cottage was inaccessible at the time of survey.
Local climate
Magpie Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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