Cordwainer's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Cordwainer's Cottage

WRENN ID
sharp-sill-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Cordwainer's Cottage, Iddesleigh, EX19 8BG
OS grid reference
SS 569 082
Coordinates
50.8559, -4.03335
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cordwainer's Cottage is a cottage that likely dates back to the 17th century, although no specific dateable features are visible. It has plastered cob walls and a thatched roof that is gabled at the front of the wing and at the left-hand end where it is attached to an adjoining property. There is a brick stack at the right-hand end. The building has a one-room plan with a small wing at the front of the right-hand end, the purpose of which is unclear; it may have been an extension due to space constraints or the house may have originally been larger. An outbuilding wing at the rear has been converted for domestic use.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical two-window front, which includes one window in the projecting wing to the right. The windows are 20th-century two- and three-light casements, while the left-hand first-floor window is set in an 18th-century wooden frame with square section mullions. There is a 20th-century stable-type door at the centre, located behind an open-fronted lean-to porch. The inner face of the wing features a very small light on the ground floor.

Inside, there is an open fireplace with an oven at the rear, and a 20th-century replacement wooden lintel. The roof timbers are likely from the 19th century, with the feet of insubstantial principal rafters visible on the first floor, resting on the wall-plates.

Local climate

Cordwainer'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 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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