Old Inn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Residential.
Old Inn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-grate-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1988
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Old Inn Cottage, Inwardleigh
- OS grid reference
- SX 560 993
- Coordinates
- 50.776, -4.04242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Inn Cottage is a small house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with possible earlier origins and later additions from the late 18th century and 20th century. The structure features partly rendered cob and rubble walls and a gable-ended thatch roof. It has three gable end stacks: a brick stack on the front range and a projecting rendered rubble stack with a brick shaft on the rear wing.
The original layout consists of a two-room range at the front, with both rooms heated. A later 18th-century one-room plan rear wing was added behind the right-hand room, which is also heated. A 20th-century outshut has been built in the angle between the wing and the main range.
The exterior is two storeys high, with a regular two-window front featuring 20th-century three-light casements in small openings. The former lean-to porch at the centre has been replaced with a window. The rear wing projects slightly at the right-hand end and includes a 20th-century glazed porch in the angle.
Inside, there are fairly insubstantial rough cross beams. The rear wing contains an open fireplace with a cambered wooden lintel, while the right-hand room has a fireplace with a plain wooden lintel. The roof trusses have not been inspected but may hold interest.
Local climate
Old Inn 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings