Swallows Rest is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Cottage.
Swallows Rest
- WRENN ID
- crooked-courtyard-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Swallows Rest, Exbourne
- OS grid reference
- SS 603 019
- Coordinates
- 50.80064, -3.98254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swallows Rest is a 17th-century cottage that may incorporate earlier elements. It has rendered cob walls and a thatched roof, which is gabled to the left and hipped to the right. The building features an axial granite ashlar stack with a drip course and an extended shaft. The original layout is unclear, as the house may have been truncated at one end, but it currently appears to consist of two rooms, one of which is heated by the axial stack. The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has two windows, featuring 20th-century two-light small-paned casements; the left-hand window on the first floor has a metal frame. Access to the door is either at the side or rear, but a lack of access prevented further inspection. The interior may contain early features.
Local climate
Swallows Rest 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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