Rebecca's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. House.
Rebecca's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-clay-shade
- 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
- Rebecca's Cottage, Sampford Courtenay
- OS grid reference
- SS 632 010
- Coordinates
- 50.79311, -3.94136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rebecca's Cottage is a small house that may have originally been two cottages, dating from the mid to late 17th century and altered in the 20th century. It features plastered cob walls and a hipped thatch roof, with two brick gable end stacks. The original layout likely consisted of an identical pair of two-room plan cottages, with an entry into a larger heated room at the front and a small unheated service room behind. It was converted into a single house, probably in the early 20th century, with the partitions between the front and back rooms removed.
The exterior is two storeys high, with a regular two-window front that includes 19th-century two-light small-paned casements on the first floor and three-light 20th-century casements on the ground floor. There is a 19th-century plank door located to the right of centre. Inside, the right-hand room features a chamfered ceiling beam and an open fireplace with a cambered wooden lintel that is chamfered with straight-cut stops.
Local climate
Rebecca's Cottage 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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