Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1987. Cottage.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-gravel-stoat
- 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
- Brook Cottage, Sampford Courtenay
- OS grid reference
- SS 633 009
- Coordinates
- 50.79167, -3.93968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century, with 19th and 20th-century additions. It features rendered cob walls and a thatched roof that is hipped to the left and gabled to the right end. There is a projecting rendered rubble stack at the right-hand end, which has a slate drip course and a brick shaft. Originally, the cottage had a one-room plan with a fireplace at the right gable end. It was subdivided into two rooms in the late 19th or early 20th century, and a 19th-century outshut was added centrally at the rear. A further single-storey extension was built behind the left-hand end in the 20th century.
The exterior is two storeys high, with a regular two-window front featuring 19th-century two-light small-paned casements. There is a 20th-century lean-to thatched porch to the right of centre, which has a plank door. The rear wall has one-storey extensions. Inside, there is a large open fireplace with rough granite jambs and a chamfered wooden lintel, along with a roughly chamfered cross-beam. The insubstantial straight principal rafters, which are partially visible on the first floor, are likely from the 18th or 19th century.
Local climate
Brook Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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