Summers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. A C18 House.
Summers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-quoin-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Summers Cottage, Jacobstowe
- OS grid reference
- SS 585 016
- Coordinates
- 50.79747, -4.00836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Summers Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century. It features rendered cob walls and a thatched roof that is hipped to the left and half-hipped at the right end, with a slate roof on the outbuilding. The cottage has a central axial brick stack and a symmetrical baffle entry with a two-room plan, each room heated by the central stack, with the entry located in front of the stack. The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical five-window front, with 19th-century two-light small-paned casements. The central entrance has a 19th-century four-panel door beneath a slate doorhood supported by curved wooden braces. There is also a 19th-century lower outbuilding attached at the left-hand end. The interior was inaccessible during the survey but may contain original joinery.
Local climate
Summers 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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