Swanstone Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Cottage.
Swanstone Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-casement-alder
- 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
- Swanstone Cottage, Exbourne
- OS grid reference
- SS 606 002
- Coordinates
- 50.78512, -3.97824
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swanstone Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with a 20th-century addition. It features rendered cob walls and a thatched roof, which is hipped to the left and gabled to the right. There is a brick stack at the right-hand gable end. The cottage has a two-room plan, with the larger room on the right heated by a gable end fireplace, while the smaller room on the left is unheated. A straight staircase is situated between the two rooms.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front with two windows, featuring late 20th-century, two-light casements. To the left of the centre, there is a 20th-century gabled thatched porch with a mid-19th-century panelled door behind it. The rear includes a one-storey addition from the 20th century.
Inside, the ceiling beams in the kitchen on the right have been replaced, while the small room on the left retains its original joists and has been divided to create a small larder at the back. The fireplace lintel in the right-hand room has also been replaced. The staircase has been replaced but is likely in its original position, rising from a lobby to the front doorway. The feet of the straight principals are visible in the first-floor rooms.
Local climate
Swanstone Cottage 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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