Merton Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1989. Cottage.

Merton Mill Cottage

WRENN ID
waning-pediment-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1989
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SS 537 127
Coordinates
50.89543, -4.0808
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Merton Mill Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 18th century. It has rendered cob and rubble walls and a thatched roof that is gabled to the left and hipped to the right, with a brick stack at the gable end. The cottage has a two-room plan, with a larger heated room on the left. There is probably a 19th-century lean-to outbuilding added to the left-hand end. The exterior features two storeys and a regular two-window front, with small-paned casements from the 19th or early 20th century—three lights to the left and two lights to the right, along with a later 20th-century window on the ground floor to the right. The centre of the front has a slight projection with a 20th-century plank and part-glazed door, and there is a lean-to against the left-hand end. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Merton Mill Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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