Kilworthy Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. Cottage.
Kilworthy Cottages
- WRENN ID
- pale-gateway-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Kilworthy Cottages, 1-4, Lamerton
- OS grid reference
- SX 481 779
- Coordinates
- 50.58112, -4.14567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kilworthy Cottages is a row of four cottages that were once part of The Duke of Bedford's estate. They were built in the mid-19th century, with some alterations occurring in the 20th century, as noted during a survey in December 1985. The cottages are rendered and lined out, featuring a hipped slate roof with rendered ridge stacks.
Each cottage has a central porch that leads to a passage, with rooms on either side, following a double depth plan. They are two storeys high, built on a plinth, and each house has a 2-light casement window with glazing bars on both sides of a gabled granite rubble porch. The porch has a chamfered surround to the doorway, which features a shaped head and a slate number plate in the gable. There are also two gabled dormers, each with a 2-light casement window with glazing bars.
The central ridge stack heats the inner room of each cottage, while an additional ridge stack heats the outer rooms. The right side of the row has a similar gabled porch to No. 4, with a 2-light casement window above it. The left side has a similar porch to No. 1, with a door that has raised cover strips and a 2-light casement window above. The rear of the cottages has four plain doors, each accompanied by single and 2-light casement windows arranged symmetrically, with 2-light casements above each door. All casements feature glazing bars, with 10 panes on the ground floor and 8 panes on the first floor, mirroring the gabled dormers found on the front. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Kilworthy Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
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