Ark Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1973. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Ark Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-newel-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ark Cottage, 10, Myrtle Street, Northam, EX39 1PH
- OS grid reference
- SS 463 303
- Coordinates
- 51.0516, -4.19339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ark Cottage is a probably 18th-century cottage, altered and now situated with its ground floor below street level. It is a two-story building with two sash windows on each floor, featuring exposed frames and altered glazing bars. Above the centrally recessed entrance is a blank panel. The roof is covered with machine tiles. The building forms part of a group of listed buildings in Myrtle Street.
Local climate
Ark Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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