Pixon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Cottage.
Pixon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-vestry-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pixon Cottage, Old Launceston Road, Tavistock
- OS grid reference
- SX 472 746
- Coordinates
- 50.55193, -4.15739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pixon Cottage is an early 19th-century former toll-house. It is a two-storey octagonal building that is slate hung, featuring an octagonal hipped roof with a central chimney. There is also a one-storey section attached to the southeast. The cottage has wooden casement windows and a porch with a segmental hood.
Local climate
Pixon Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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