Smythen Cleave is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Cottage.
Smythen Cleave
- WRENN ID
- tall-storey-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Smythen Cleave, Winkleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 636 109
- Coordinates
- 50.88233, -3.93989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smythen Cleave is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with a 20th-century addition. It features plastered cob walls and a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. The cottage has a two-room plan, with the entrance leading into the larger heated room on the right. The exterior is two storeys high and has a regular two-window front. On the first floor to the left, there is a 19th-century two-light small-paned casement window, and below it, a three-light window. To the right, there is a 20th-century three-light casement window. A gabled 20th-century porch with a stable-type door is located to the right of the centre. At the rear, there is a two-storey 20th-century addition. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a roughly chamfered cambered wooden lintel and an oven. The roof structure includes insubstantial straight principal rafters resting on the wall-plate.
Local climate
Smythen Cleave 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 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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