Dornaford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House.
Dornaford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-doorway-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dornaford Cottage, Exbourne
- OS grid reference
- SX 608 998
- Coordinates
- 50.78184, -3.97522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dornaford Cottage is a small house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with extensions made in the 19th century. The building features rendered cob and rubble walls and has a gable-ended thatched roof. There is a rendered stack at the left gable end and a brick stack at the right end. Originally, the house likely had a two-room plan, with the right-hand room being heated. In the 19th century, it was extended by one room at the left-hand end, along with some rear additions.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with four windows, which are a mix of 20th-century one, two, and three-light casements. At the centre, there is a 20th-century flat-roofed conservatory or porch with a glazed door. The rear of the house includes outshuts. Inside, the right-hand room features wany closely-spaced insubstantial beams and a wood lintel above the open fireplace.
Local climate
Dornaford Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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