Dukes Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Dukes Cottages
- WRENN ID
- haunted-pewter-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dukes Cottages, 2, Fore Street, Milton Abbot, PL19 0NX
- OS grid reference
- SX 407 792
- Coordinates
- 50.59144, -4.25087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dukes Cottages is one of a pair of cottages located on a corner site to the northeast of the churchyard in Milton Abbot. It was built around the early 19th century for the Duke of Bedford. The cottage is constructed of stone rubble, with the front colourwashed and plastered, and features a slate roof that is gabled at the right end and coped at the left where it meets the adjoining cottage. There is a large projecting stack with set-offs at the right gable end. The cottage is one room wide and has an integral outshut, standing two storeys tall.
The front has an asymmetrical two-window arrangement, likely half of what was originally a symmetrical elevation with the adjoining cottage, which has since been altered. There is a porch on the front at the left, covered by a catslide roof, with an entrance at right angles to the main block through a Caernarvon arched doorway. The porch has a one-light casement window, while the ground floor to the right features a two-light casement window with diamond leaded panes. The first-floor window to the right is a full gable dormer with a two-light casement window, also with diamond leaded panes. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Dukes Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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